„I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself – simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.“

— Stephen Fry

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„People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward“
— Haruki Murakami
„I have seen many theoretical objections to democracy, and sometimes urge them with such heat that it probably goes beyond the bound of sound taste, but I am thoroughly convinced, nonetheless, that the democratic nations are happier than any other. The United States today, indeed, is probably the happiest the world has ever seen.“
— H.L. Mencken
„Late this evening I looked at the sky and saw the stars. I felt as if it was the first time I had ever looked at them.I was stunned.The stars made an extraordinary impression on me“
— Andrei Tarkovsky