„Without admitting it they sense that their lives would be completely intolerable as soon as they no longer clung to satisfactions which are none at all.“

— Theodor W. Adorno

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„In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt
„Can I live a life, daily life, without sense of self-concern?“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.“
— Rollo May
„"It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given.“
— Ludwig Wittgenstein