„No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.“

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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„All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.“
— John Muir
„Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.“
— Hermann Hesse
„Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up, Hannah. The clouds are lifting. The sun is breaking through. We are coming out of the darkness into the light.“
— Charlie Chaplin
„The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about.“
— Elvis Presley