„I do not want to be the inheritor of so many misfortunes.I do not want to continue as a root and as a tomb,as a solitary tunnel, as a cellar full of corpses,stiff with cold, dying with pain.“

— Pablo Neruda

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„I was guilty and irritated and full of love and pain. I wanted to kick him and I wanted to take him in my arms.“
— James Baldwin
„I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.“
— Henry Rollins
„Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.“
— Anthony Burgess
„I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.“
— Rumi