„All shuffle there; all cough in ink;All wear the carpet with their shoes;All think what other people think;All know the man their neighbour knows.Lord, what would they sayDid their Catullus walk that way?“

— W.B. Yeats

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„It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.“
— Terry Pratchett
„People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking.“
— Joseph Campbell
„I think, you know, the thing everybody really wants to know anyway is not what the theory of relativity is, but I think what we all really want to know anyways, is whether we're loved or not.“
— Rich Mullins
„What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.“
— Charles Bukowski