„Then spoke the thunderDA Datta: what have we given?My friend, blood shaking my heartThe awful daring of a moment’s surrenderWhich an age of prudence can never retractBy this, and this only, we have existed.“

— T.S. Eliot

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„I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.“
— Albert Einstein
„Shall we dance, friend of my heart?“
— Christopher Paolini
„What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.“
— Sigmund Freud
„She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.“
— Jack Kerouac
„You’re in my bones and my blood and my heart,” he said. “I’d have to tear myself open to let you go.“
— Cassandra Clare