„But delightful though it is to indulge in righteous indignation, it is misplaced if we agree with the lady’s-maid that high birth is a form of congenital insanity, that the sufferer merely inherits the diseases of his ancestors, and endures them, for the most part very stoically, in one of those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„I grew on you, though," Jace stated confidently. "Eventually," Alec agreed. "Like moss, or a skin disease.“
— Cassandra Clare
„The land of the living was not far removed from the domain of the ancestors. There was coming and going between them, especially at festivals and also when an old man died, because an old man was very close to the ancestors. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.“
— Chinua Achebe
„I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.“
— Margaret Atwood
„life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.“
— Anaïs Nin