„Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.“

— Ambrose Bierce

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„Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.“
— Sigmund Freud
„There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.“
— Margaret Atwood
„A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.“
— W. H. Auden