„Shall Earth no more inspire thee,Thou lonely dreamer now?Since passion may not fire theeShall Nature cease to bow?Thy mind is ever movingIn regions dark to thee;Recall its useless roving —Come back and dwell with me“

— Emily Brontë

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„Stir up thy mind, and recall thy wits again from thy natural dreams, and visions, and when thou art perfectly awoken, and canst perceive that they were but dreams that troubled thee, as one newly awakened out of another kind of sleep look upon these worldly things with the same mind as thou didst upon those, that thou sawest in thy sleep.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Why then dost thou choose to act in the same way? and why dost thou not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them? And why art thou not altogether intent upon the right way of making use of things which happen to thee? for then thou wilt use them well, and they will be material for thee. Only attend to thyself, and resolve to be a good man in every act which thou doest; and remember…“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Why then dost thou choose to act in the same way? and why dost thou not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them? And why art thou not altogether intent upon the right way of making use of things which happen to thee?“
— Marcus Aurelius
„O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?“
— William Shakespeare
„Life-flow of my natal hour, I will not weary of thy power,Till in the changes of thy soundA chord's three parts distinct are found.I will faithful move with thee,God-ordered, self-fed energy,Nature in eternity.“
— Margaret Fuller
„Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee.“
— William Shakespeare