„All the world knows how to cry but not all the world knows how to sigh. Sighing is extra.“

— Gertrude Stein

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„She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.“
— William Shakespeare
„After that, how unbelievable death was! - that is must end; and no one in the whole world would know how she had loved it all.“
— Virginia Woolf
„The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all, it is for you to dare all.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!“
— Emil M. Cioran