Konzentriertes Abendland.

— Peter Scholl-Latour

Sturmbegegnung von U 96 und U 572 am 04.11.1941
im Atlantik; fotografiert von Lothar-Günther Buchheim

Nicht minder unsicher und undurchschaubar erschien die Gesellschaft insgesamt. Sie war durch fragile Identitäten, soziale Fragmentierung, Materialismus und Egoismus sowie scheiternde Beziehungen und soziale Isolation gekennzeichnet. Gefühle von Ohnmacht und Bedrohung prägten das Bild der Risikogesellschaft und schufen den Eindruck ontologischer Aussichtslosigkeit.

— Christoph Classen;

aus: Die Schimanski-Tatorte und der Wandel
von Gewalt in westdeutschen Fernsehkrimis

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[Feel the Juche; thank.]

I feat on solitude, I will never miss the crowd.

— Charles Bukowski

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TELE-MACK; fotografiert von Edwin Braun, 1968

All of us are in some sort of theatre we create for ourselves.

— Werner Herzog

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The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

— Charles Bukowski

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I never even thought about whether or not they understand what I'm doing [...] the emotional reaction is all that matters, as long as there's some feeling of communication, it isn't necessary that it be understood.

— John Coltrane

I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy […] even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears.

— Carl Jung

Wir machen Heimatmusik aus dem Rhein-Ruhr-Gebiet.

— Ralf Hütter

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Fegt mich weg.

I'm very solitary, that's all. […] I can't dismiss it. Inside, I'm very much in communication with a lot of people and things who absolutely don’t know I'm in communication with them.

— Jean-Luc Godard

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

— Dave Brubeck

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As close as you can for as long as it lasts.

Für viele ist Freiheit eine Last.