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Lonely, ain't it? Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

— Toni Morrison

This is no world for gentle people.

― Yasunari Kawabata

[Heavy rotation.]

Das sind die Thorheiten einer Regierung, die weder zu einer Außenpolitik, noch zu einer Strategie fähig ist.

— Peter Scholl-Latour

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What if UFOs are just billionaires from other planets?

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

— Steve McQueen

Ralf Hütter, 75

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Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you set up a life you don't need to escape from.

— Seth Godin

I know you're tired, but come, this is the way.

— Rumi

Mark Rothko, Rothko Chapel, Houston, USA, 1971
Cenatio Principalis, Domus Aurea, Rom, Italien, 64 - 104

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions — tragedy, ecstasy, doom and so on — and the fact that lots of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I communicate those basic human emotions [...]. The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them. And if you, as you say, are moved only by their color relationships, then you miss the point.

— Mark Rothko

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We create eternity from scraps of time.

— Anna Kamienska

What are you thinking? the girl asked. Nothing. You have to think something. I was just feeling.

— Ernest Hemingway

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A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

— Yann Martel

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One thing you should know — music can and will change human consciousness.

— Edgar Froese

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Suspiria

There is no perfection, only life.

— Milan Kundera

I have pasts inside me I did not bury properly.

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Where are we really going? Home, always back home.

— Novalis

The main thing is, you must believe.

― Andrei Tarkovsky

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[…] my only cure for the loneliness I go through: More.

— Franz Wright

#autobahn

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The best portion of a good man's life — his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

— William Wordsworth

Musikgeschichte im Tatort; heute: Tatort Essen, Das Mädchen von gegenüber, 1977. Kommissar Heinz Haferkamp hält Miles Davis Album "Sketches of Spain" aus 1959/60 in der Hand; links hinter ihm an der Wand befindet sich ein Poster/Portraitfoto der Musikkapelle Kraftwerk.

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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: This skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Japan, 1960

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It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see.

— John Green