„I am on the train going back to Stieglitz – and in a hurry to get there – I have had four months west and it seems to be all that I needed – It has been like the wind and the sun – there doesn’t seem to have been a crack of the waking day or night that wasn’t full – I haven’t gained an ounce in weight but I feel so alive that I am apt to crack at any moment..“

— Georgia O'Keeffe

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„I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again.“
— Sylvia Plath
„Anita, I have just come the comforting conclusion that I'll have to paint acres and acres of water color landscapes before I will look for even a passably fair one. After about ten attempts — I certainly have to laugh at myself — It's like feeling around in the dark — thought I knew what I was going to try to do but I find I don't — and guess I'll only find out by slaving away at it. I feel — like a wreck — Have been working like mad all day — and you know how deliciously disgusted with every thing one can be — when the sun begins to go down — and one has been working ones head off all day. It gives me the sensation I used to have when I was a youngster and was going away from home on the train — It is a very special sort of sick feeling.“
— Georgia O'Keeffe
„I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.“
— Haruki Murakami
„I am one who has been acquainted with the night“
— Robert Frost
„Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.“
— Frida Kahlo