„I expect this to be my last venture in this field; ’tain’t worth the grief“

— Robert A. Heinlein
„Sick on a journey,my dreams wanderthe withered fields.Bashō's last poem, written while he was dying of a stomach illness.“
— Bashō Matsuo
„I have a dream!To be free at last!Free at last!Free at last.And if a man has nothing to die for,Then his life is worth nothing.“
— Jr.
„Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Then such grief took possession of my soul that my heart was wrung, and I felt as though I were dying; and then . . . then I awoke.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.“
— William Faulkner