„Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.“

— Terry Pratchett
„Please remember: things are not what they seem.“
— Haruki Murakami
„The only hidden meaning of thingsIs that they have no hidden meaning.It's the strangest thing of all,Stranger than all poets' dreamsAnd all philosophers' thoughts,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there's nothing to understand.Yes, this is what my senses learned on their own:Things have no meaning: they have existence.Things are the only hidden meaning of things.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur… bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Things are never as bad as they seem.“
— Harper Lee