„. I have done well to come here [to the hospital of Saint-Remy, ] first of all that by seeing the actual truth about the life of the various madmen and lunatics in this menagerie I am losing the vague dread, the fear of the thing.“

— Vincent Van Gogh

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„If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„I am absurdly fearful, and various omens have combined to give me a dark feeling.“
— Margaret Fuller
„That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.“
— Paulo Coelho
„There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.“
— Kurt Cobain