„Time apparently did nothing but blunt grief’s sharpest edge so that it hacked rather than sliced.“

— Stephen King

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„He — for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it — was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters.“
— Virginia Woolf
„I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.“
— Haruki Murakami
„There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading.“
— Vladimir Nabokov