„The sky is full of birds, the purple lupins stand up so regally and peacefully, two little old women have sat down on the box for a chat, the sun is shining on my face — and right before our eyes, mass murder. The whole thing is simply beyond comprehension.“

— Etty Hillesum

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„The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.“
— Chinua Achebe
„The sun did not shine.It was too wet to play.So we sat in the houseAll that cold, cold, wet day.“
— Dr. Seuss
„The sun is up, the sky is blueIt's beautiful, and so are you“
— John Lennon
„The little things are important, Mr. Wind-Up Bird“
— Haruki Murakami
„Every living thing was shunning him. Poor little Peter Pan, he sat down and cried, and even then he did not know that, for a bird, he was sitting on his wrong part. It is a blessing that he did not know, for otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.“
— J. M. Barrie
„… it is, after all, not necessary to fly right into the middle of the sun, but it is necessary to crawl to a clean little spot on Earth where the sun sometimes shines and one can warm oneself a little.“
— Franz Kafka