„Will: “You are not really dying, are you?”Jem: “So they tell me.”Will: “I am sorry.”Jem: “No. Don’t be ordinary like that. Don’t say you’re sorry. Say you’ll train with me.”Will: “I’ll train with you.“

— Cassandra Clare

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„Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„During these travels he's starting to train me in a most interesting way. We'd be sitting somewhere and I'd say,"Did I ever tell you about the time that Tim and I …"And he'd say, "Don't think about the past. Just be here now."Silence.And I'd say, "How long do you think we're going to be on this trip?"And he'd say, "Don't think about the future. Just be here now."I'd say, "You know, I really feel crumby, my hips are hurting …"“
— Ram Dass
„When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.“
— Corrie ten Boom
„Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.“
— Charles Bukowski
„I’m a lunatic by nature, and lunatics don’t need training – they just are.“
— Ozzy Osbourne
„Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?“
— Noam Chomsky