Petter

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Wenn du wissen willst, wie ein Mensch ist, dann sieh dir genau an, wie er seine Untergebenen behandelt, nicht die Gleichrangigen.«”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch

“Consider the roots of a simple and mundane action, for instance, buying bread for your breakfast. A farmer has grown the grain in a field carved from wilderness by his ancestors; in the ancient city a miller has ground the flour and a baker prepared the loaf; the vendor has transported it to your house in a cart built by a cartwright and his apprentices. Even the donkey that draws the cart, what stories could she not tell if you could decipher her braying? And then you yourself hand over a coin of copper dug from the very heart of the earth, you who have risen from a bed of dreams and darkness to stand in the light of the vast and terrifying sun. Are there not a thousand strands woven together into this tapestry of a morning meal? How then can you expect that the omens of great events should be easy to unravel? The Pseudo-Iamblichus Scroll”
― Katharine Kerr, A Time of Omens

“Everyone has his cross to bear.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial