„This other man I had dreamedA drunken, vain-glorious lout.He had done most bitter wrongTo some who are near my heart,Yet I number him in the song;He, too, has resigned his partIn the casual comedy;He, too, has been changed in his turn,Transformed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.“

— W.B. Yeats

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„He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.“
— Lewis Carroll
„All changed, changed utterly:A terrible beauty is born.“
— W.B. Yeats
„Suppose that thou hast detached thyself from the natural unity… yet here there is this beautiful provision, that it is in thy power again to unite thyself. God has allowed this to no other part, after it has been separated and cut asunder, to come together again. …he has distinguished man, for he has put it in his power not to be separated at all from the universal …he has allowed him to be returned and to be united and to resume his place as a part.“
— Marcus Aurelius
„How he lies in his rights of a man!Death has done all death can.And absorbed in the new life he leads,He recks not, he heedsNor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strikeOn his senses alike,And are lost in the solemn and strangeSurprise of the change.“
— Robert Browning
„Having disburdened his heart, the Inquisitor waits for some time to hear his prisoner speak in His turn. His silence weighs upon him. He has seen that his captive has been attentively listening to him all the time, with His eyes fixed penetratingly and softly on the face of his jailer, and evidently bent upon not replying to him. The old man longs to hear His voice, to hear Him reply; better words of bitterness and scorn than His silence. Suddenly He rises; slowly and silently approaching the Inquisitor, He bends towards him and softly kisses the bloodless, four-score and-ten-year-old lips. That is all the answer…“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty — he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world — alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.“
— F. Scott Fitzgerald