Letzter Zug (Lok 364 863-1) am 23.12.1999 auf der Strecke Mülheim-Heißen - Essen-Rüttenscheid - Hattingen; seit November 2004 Radweg Grugatrasse.

[Why are you so sad?] Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

Andy, take my picture.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry Kissinger

Romy Schneider

La Piscine; dir. by Jacques Deray in 1969

Her fingers are eloquent.

— Andreas Empirikos

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60's in Brussels;
dir. by Chantal Akerman, 1994

Nature doesn't really care about your beliefs.

— Richard Feynman

Damaged people always find each other, the attraction is irresistible.

— Michael Boiano

Ich kann mit den ganzen Worten nichts anfangen. Ich weiß auch gar nicht, was ich darauf antworten soll.

— Klaus Kinski

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The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

— Auguste Rodin

I made landscapes out of what I feel.

— Fernando Pessoa

Ballet Master of the Opéra de Paris and his students, Paris.

Ph. by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1930

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

— Jeanette Winterson

Just move, you'll discover. The strength you don't know.

— Susan Sontag

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She lives in dreams, alone.

— Virginia Woolf

Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not in words.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[Heavy rotation.]

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I find some comfort in things that aren't easy to define.

— Chelsea Wolfe

Aral-Pokal, Galopprennbahn, Gelsenkirchen-Horst, 1976

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Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There are things you can't get anywhere, but we dream they can be found in other people.

— David Lynch

All the answers are within you.

The sea is a mirror, not only to the clouds, the sun, the moon, and the stars, but to all one’s dreams, to all one's speculations. The sea tells us that everything is changing and that nothing ever changes, that tides go out and return, that all existence is a rhythm, only hastens or holds it back for a moment.

— Arthur Symons

Marcello Mastroianni

8½; dir. by Federico Fellini in 1963

Ours are untidy souls. Both are covered with scars.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

My poetry does not exist to answer, but rather to continue asking.

— Emily Jungmin Yoon

[Heavy rotation.]

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

— Charles Bukowski

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I look for the one I love with my soul.

— Hélène Cixous

Horst Tappert | Hans Korte

Derrick, Gangster haben andere Spielregeln;
inszeniert von Hans Vohrer, 1984

Meine Frau und ich leben ganz offenbar in verschiedenen Welten. Aber das ist ja nicht unbedingt was Seltenes. [Und in was für einer Welt lebt Ihre Frau? — Stephan Derrick] Weiß der Teufel. In der Welt meiner Frau kenne ich mich nicht aus.

— Prof. Balthaus

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I feel very strongly that I’m surrounded by other realities.

— Ingmar Bergman

All noble things are as difficult as they are rare.

— Spinoza

Christo

* 13.06.1935 - † 31.05.2020

The skies are changing their stars, farewell to you.

— Gottfried Benn

Most of the really important people in our lives have either been the question or the answer. Only the rarest were both.

— Jonathan Carroll

奈良公園

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

— Frank Herbert

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

— C. G. Jung