„If I roll my eyes and mutter,if I clutch at my heart and scream in horrorlike a third-rate actress chewing up a mad scene,I do it in private and nobody seesbut the bathroom mirror.“

— Margaret Atwood

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„And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.“
— James Joyce
„At the moment I was mad enough to chew up nails and spit out paper clips.“
— Jim Butcher
„I will still be in some part the Jem you knew, and I will see you with the eyes of my heart.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Nobody knew my rose of the world but me… I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart“
— Tennessee Williams
„I read "King Lear" soon after "Macbeth," and I shall never forget the feeling of horror when I came to the scene in which Gloster's eyes are put out. Anger seized me, my fingers refused to move, I sat rigid for one long moment, the blood throbbing in my temples, and all the hatred that a child can feel concentrated in my heart.“
— Helen Keller