„By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness…. I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory…. Let “desire” be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire--- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you. --Jamie“
— Diana Gabaldon
„You are not the last dream of my soul.You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.“
— Cassandra Clare
„A truce to philosophy! — Life is before me and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.“
— Arthur Rimbaud
„So long as my body lives, and yours -- we are one flesh," he whispered, "And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours. Claire -- I swear by my hope of heaven, I will not be parted from you.“
— Diana Gabaldon