„Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. Whenever we seek to break this spell of passivity, our actions are cruel and awkward and generally obscene, like an invalid who has forgotten to walk.“
— Jim Morrison
„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
„mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.“
— Jeff Buckley