„The years like great black oxen tread the world,And God the herdsman goads them on behind,And I am broken by their passing feet.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.“
— Paullina Simons
„I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, around ancient towers and i have been circling for a thousand years. And I still dont know if I am an eagle or a storm or a great song.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„I am the punishment of God. If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.“
— Genghis Khan
„I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.“
— Walt Whitman
„Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.“
— Lewis Carroll
„I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius -- I know it too well to blush behind it.“
— Thomas Wolfe