"" تعلّم ما يجب أن تتناوله بجديّة ومن ثم إضحك من الباقي . ""
— هرمان هسه

""الجهل ليس عارًا ، بل إنه سعادة لأغلب الناس بيننا .""
— باتريك زوسكند

"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
— Hermann Hesse

"Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. "
— Hermann Hesse

"لي حكمة المحكوم بالإعدام:
لا أشياء أملكها لتملكني،"
— محمود درويش

"I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning."
— Orhan Pamuk

"Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves."
— Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)