„It’s one of the things that makes us different than they are, Harry. The blood on their hands does not make it right to bloody my own. My choices are measured against my own soul. Not against the stains on theirs.“

— Jim Butcher

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„What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe.It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. But in order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no further and I cannot forgive you. There's no choice but to confront you, to engage you, to erase you. I've gone to great lengths to expand my threshold of pain. I will use my mistakes against you. There's no other choice. Shameless now. Nameless now. Nothing now. No one now. But my soul must be iron cause my fear is naked. I'm naked and fearless - and my fear is naked!“
— Henry Rollins
„I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery;that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth.I repaid vileness with doves.“
— Pablo Neruda
„With few words I shall make thee understand my soul.“
— Michelangelo Buonarroti