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“Es gab Dinge, die ich nicht sagen, sondern nur schreiben konnte. Denn wenn ich redete, dann dachte ich, und wenn ich schrieb, dann fühlte ich.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what we know is in ourselves, all the cowardice, weakness, laziness, dishonesty, compromise, and stupidity. We throw a cordon of love around the chosen one and decide that everything within it will somehow be free of our faults. We locate inside another a perfection that eludes us within ourselves, and through our union with the beloved hope to maintain (against the evidence of all self-knowledge) a precarious faith in our species.”
― Alain de Botton, On Love

“Objektiv gesehen ist der Tod das Beste, was den Menschen passieren konnte. Er zwingt sie, sich dem Leben zu stellen, jede Sekunde davon zu genießen und sich zu verwirklichen. Er ist das einzig richtige Ende, notwendig und ein starker Antrieb.“ Er machte eine Pause. „Subjektiv gesehen ist der Tod natürlich scheiße.”
― Benedict Wells, Fast genial

“Das Gegengift zu Einsamkeit ist nicht das wahllose Zusammensein mit irgendwelchen Leuten. Das Gegengift zu Einsamkeit ist Geborgenheit.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Sieh dich an, dachte ich, was sehnst du dich in Gesellschaft so oft danach, allein zu sein, wenn du das Alleinsein kaum noch aushältst?”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.”
― Veronica Roth , Divergent

“Du bist nicht schuld an deiner Kindheit und am Tod unserer Eltern. Aber du bist schuld daran, was diese Dinge mit dir machen. Du allein trägst die Verantwortung für dich und dein Leben. Und wenn du nur tust, was du immer getan hast, wirst du auch nur bekommen, was du immer bekommen hast.”
― Benedict Wells, Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

“Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago:
Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer.
That is my name.”
― Richard Brautigan, In Watermelon Sugar

“Delusions are not harmful in themselves, they only hurt when one is alone in believing in them, when one cannot create an environment in which they can be sustained.”
― Alain de Botton, Essays In Love

“Erst wenn die Mutigen klug und die Klugen mutig geworden sind, wird das zu spüren sein, was irrtümlicherweise schon oft festgestellt wurde: ein Fortschritt der Menschheit. (Not until the courageous have become smart and the smart courageous, can we feel what often has been erroneously declared: an advancement of human kind.)”
― Erich Kästner, Erich Kästner, Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer Kopiervorlagen

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I don't know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.”
― Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

“Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, daß er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Too little information and you're blind, too much and you're blinded.”
― Stuart Turton, The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

“I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

“Don’t undress my love you might find a mannequin; don’t undress the mannequin you might find my love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“She didn't do anything unusual. I only wanted her to.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“She has hurt fewer people than anybody I know, and if you look at it like that, well, she has created a better world, she has won.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Everyone's interesting," Elliot said. "Acting 101." - "They're definitely not. Advertising 202.”
― Mhairi McFarlane, Who’s That Girl?

“Daß das Leben des Menschen nur ein Traum sei, ist manchem schon so vorgekommen, und auch mit mir zieht dieses Gefühl immer herum. Wenn ich die Einschränkung ansehe, in welcher die tätigen und forschenden Kräfte des Menschen eingesperrt sind; wenn ich sehe, wie alle Wirksamkeit dahinaus läuft, sich die Befriedigung von Bedürfnissen zu verschaffen, die wieder keinen Zweck haben, als unsere arme Existenz zu verlängern, und dann, daß alle Beruhigung über gewisse Punkte des Nachforschens nur eine träumende Regignation ist, da man sich die Wände, zwischen denen man gefangen sitzt, mit bunten Gestalten und lichten Aussichten bemalt — das alles, Wilhelm, macht mich stumm. Ich kehre in mich selbst zurück, und finde eine Welt! Wieder mehr in Ahnung und dunkler Begier als in Darstellung und lebendiger Kraft. Und da schwimmt alles vor meinen Sinnen, und ich lächle dann so träumend weiter in die Welt.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn't know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“You learn nothing very profound about yourself simply by being bullied; but by bullying someone else you learn something you can never forget.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People