„I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.“

— William Saroyan

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„Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.“
— William Saroyan
„People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better. In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.“
— John Nash
„They have, all of them, such wonderful good manners. Not taught good manners — the natural thing. I could never have believed till I came here that natural courtesy could be such a wonderful — such a positive thing.“
— Agatha Christie
„There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.“
— Haruki Murakami
„such mad confidence within despair.“
— Jean Paul Sartre