„I am deeply opposed to violence in all its forms, and yet I myself am violent in spirit, in my quarrel with the unbeatable: myself, my daemon, God, the human race, the world, time, pain, disorder, disgrace and death.“

— William Saroyan

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„I am tipsy after myown feelingsthemselves have become wine.I forget myself, world and all.“
— Suman Pokhrel
„I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inaccessible, inside all and careless of all.“
— William Saroyan
„I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.“
— Anaïs Nin
„Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.“
— Meister Eckhart
„In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.“
— Frantz Fanon
„Sometimes, dear brother, I know so well what I want. I am quite able to do without God, both in my life and in my painting, but what I cannot do without, unwell as I am, is something greater than myself, which is my life, the power to create.“
— Vincent Van Gogh