„The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.“

— Emily Brontë

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„It seems as if the female spirit of the world were mourning everlastingly over blessings, not lost, but which she has never had, and which, in her discouragement she feels that she never will have, they are so far off.“
— Florence Nightingale
„She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.“
— Ayn Rand
„She was unusual because even though I knew her family was as poor as ours, nothing she said or did seemed touched by that. Or by prejudice. Or by anything the world said or did. It was as if she had something inside her that somehow made all that not count.“
— Jesse Owens
„She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
„The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to people with imaginations of her own.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„Her intense and pure religiousness took the form of her having equal faith in the existence of another world and in the impossibility of comprehending it in terms of earthly life.“
— Vladimir Nabokov
„For two years I have lived outside the world: in a dream world. One by one, I let each strand tying me to the world and to my fellow men be cut. I live entirely for the mind, for the. heart not at all …. I turned myself into a bear, inside and outside … other people did not exist for me. For perhaps two years, I didn’t laugh once and I didn’t cry … but I never hurt anyone but myself.“
— Antonio Gramsci