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Wie kommuniziert man am besten das Gefühl, tot zu sein …
Ja, ich kenne das Wort kommunizieren. Ich bin tot, nicht geistesgestört.


Chuck Palahniuk

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ich gehe, aber ich weiß nicht, wohin
ich fühle, aber i...
EUGEN RUGE Ich mag zwar Ich sein, aber das könnte mir nun wirklich nicht passieren, DU zu sein.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK War ich kindisch? Verdammt, ja.
War ich wütend? Und wie.
Hatte er das ver...
MARTINA RIEMER »Das Prinzip Moral verstehe ich nicht.«
»Das überrascht mich nicht im geringsten.«
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Ich bin gern erlöst von meinem Spiegelbild, von der Frage, wie ich aussehe. Auch ohne Spiegel weiß...
PAULINE DEBOK Wie ich höre, zeigt auch der Himmel eine Leidenschaft für das Neue. Ein Stern wird müde, ein Ster...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Ich wollte meine Augen öffnen, um Gideon ein letztes Mal anzusehen, aber ich schaffte es nicht.
KERSTIN GIER I feel that I am a man of destiny. [Ger., Ich fuhl 's das ich der Mann des Schicksals bin.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Aber ich wollte nicht genesen, wenn ich dafür das wenige, das mir von meinem Bruder geblieben war, ...
KATE MOSSE Ich möchte wissen", sagte er vor sich hin, "was eigentlich in einem Buch los ist, solang es zu ist....
MICHAEL ENDE Habe nun, ach! Philosophie,
Juristerei und Medizin,
Und leider auch Theologie
Durchau...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE …
Das verschlug mir für einen Moment die Sprache, ich hatte nicht gedacht, dass es so schlim...
MARTINA RIEMER Beschwipst, betrunken ... ein Gentleman würde die Situation jedenfalls nicht ausnutzen."
"Du h...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Ich bin voller Zuversicht und Entschlossenheit und verfüge über einen freien Willen – zumindest ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ich bin kein Kind, ich bin nicht niedlich; warum soll man so jemanden streicheln?
SIBYLLE BERG Auch ist es vielleicht nicht eigentlich Liebe wenn ich sage, daß Du mir das Liebste bist; Liebe ist...
FRANZ KAFKA Wenn du mich küsst, Gwendolyn Shepherd, dann ist das so, als würde ich den Kontakt zum Boden verli...
KERSTIN GIER Rätselhafterweise ist Schriftsteller trotzdem der schönste Beruf der Welt. Mehr als das. Schriftst...
JULI ZEH Auf dem allerersten Foto, das von mir geschossen wurde, liege ich auf der Säuglingsstation, eingewi...
RAZIEL REID Ich für meinen Teil denke während einer Verfolgungsjagd gern nach. Keiner stört einen, man ist al...
JONATHAN STROUD Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor,
und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Das Blau in seinem Blick multiplizierte und intensivierte sich, während er sich weiter zu mir vorle...
SIMONA DOBRESCU Am Ende, schloss ich, glauben die Menschen an ein Leben nach dem Tod, weil sie das Gegenteil nicht e...
JOHN GREEN Ich bin zu unerfahren, um Erfahrungen zu sammeln«, fasse ich mein Dilemma zusammen.
ISABEL SHTAR Ich würde niemandem raten die Luft anzuhalten ... Abgesehen von der Filmfrage, denke...
RENE AUBERJONOIS Als die Nazis die Kommunisten holten,
habe ich geschwiegen;
ich war ja kein Kommunist.
MARTIN NIEMöLLER In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood ...
HEINRICH HEINE Eine Move bin ich von keinem Land,
Meine Heimat nenne ich keinen Srrand,
Mich bindet nich...
EMPRESS ELIZABETH Uhm", hauche ich. "Nach rechts oder links?"
"Am besten legen wir eine Spur aus Brotkrumen", sch...
NINA MACKAY Wen das Wort nicht schlägt, den schlägt auch der Stock nicht.
SOCRATES Ihr glaubt, ihr seid dazu verpflichtet -
ja, das wolln wir aber gar nicht - ja, das wolln wir ...
KURT TUCHOLSKY Ich habe in diesen Tagen viel über Liebe nachgedacht, und darüber, wie ich das Wort hasste und es ...
JOHN UPDIKE Aber eins weiß ich mit Sicherheit: Dass wir das Leben führen, für das wir uns entscheiden. Dass w...
LILLY LINDNER Am Anfang war das Wort, am Ende das Ding.
JULI ZEH Er macht mir Angst", gestand ich ihr.
Sie gab ein Prustton von sich. "Bei mir ist er die Liebe...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Ich bin enttäuscht ... Ich Ich hätte möglicherweise drei weitere Staffeln gemacht. Ich hätte wah...
DOMINIC KEATING Ich bin enttäuscht ... Ich Ich hätte möglicherweise drei weitere Staffeln gemacht. Ich hätte wah...
DOMINIC KEATING Aber das hat dich krank gemacht, fuhr sie fort. Nicht sein Tod, sondern das danach.
KATE MOSSE Ich bin einfach sterblich, wie andere Leute erkältet sind. In jeder Sekunde spüre ich die Symptome...
JULI ZEH Den Haag, das zu jener Zeit um die vierzigtausend Einwohner zählte, nennt Diderot das schönste Dor...
W.G. SEBALD The worst of me is known, and I can say that I am better than the reputation I bear. [Ger., Das A...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Und wenn ich mal heirate, dann muss mein Mann zwei Bedingungen erfüllen: Er muss Bücher und Kinder...
ASTRID LINDGREN Ich werde stehen und warten.
Ich werde müde werden.
Ich werde nicht einschlafen.
Ich...
HERMANN HESSE Wie einer, der auf fremden Meeren fuhr,
so bin ich bei den ewig Einheimischen;
die vollen ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Sind sie vorbestraft? Du lieber Himmel ich wußte gar nicht, dass das immer noch nötig ist." Britis...
ERIC IDLE Seit ich die Menschen kenne, liebe ich die Tiere.
NICOLAS BARREAU Das Leben geht weiter.
Manchmal fragte ich mich, ob diese Tatsache nicht das Grausamste an unse...
MAX RHODE Ich habe immer gedacht, dass ich die seltsamste Person auf dieser Welt bin, aber später dachte ich,...
FRIDA KAHLO Erlaube," fuhr Meister Abraham fort, "erlaube, mein Johannes, mit dem Just magst du mich kaum vergle...
E.T.A. HOFFMANN Kann man Selbstbewusstsein eigentlich irgendwo in einer Dose kaufen? Du scheinst das ja zu löffeln ...
MARTINA RIEMER Könnte ich es sagen und lehren, so wäre ich ein Weiser. So aber bin ich nur ein Fährmann und mein...
HERMANN HESSE Du kannst ihn nicht mehr enttäuschen, er ist nicht mehr da.“
Riley knallte sein Glas auf die...
JAYDEN V. REEVES Wenn ich nur ein Telephon habe, der Wald 
wird sich finden! Ohne Telephon kann man nur 
...
KARL KRAUS Die schwere Verwundung Gregors, an der er über einen Monat litt -- der
Apfel blieb, da ihn nie...
FRANZ KAFKA Träume und Märchen waren ihr eigentlicher Lebensinhalt, dachte ich jetzt. Deshalb hat sie sich auc...
THOMAS BERNHARD Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is...
J.M. COETZEE Ich werde nicht alles erreichen, was ich will, aber ich werde alles probieren, was ich kann.
BENJAMIN LEBERT Die Art, wie wir unser Leben verbringen, wie wir existieren, unsere Umgebung, das, was wir jeden Tag...
JOHN STRELECKY Das Sterben erscheint uns als die größte Schwäche überhaupt, schlimmer als Alkoholismus oder Her...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Ich selbst spiele nie Billard, [...],aber ich weiß, dass man den Ball hoch oder tief, rechts oder l...
ROBERT MUSIL Strahlend wie ein Kind unter dem Weihnachtsbaum sagte sie: "Ihr raucht zum Spaß, ich rauche, um zu ...
JOHN GREEN Natürlich mochte ich die, die nicht ich waren, nur selten.
SIBYLLE BERG Das Bild vom Wirtschaftsgeschehen als einem Wettlauf oder Wettkampf ist in seinen Details etwas vers...
J.M. COETZEE Jahrtausende lang haben die Menschen nicht herausgefunden, was es mit der Liebe auf sich hat. Wie vi...
STEPHENIE MEYER Ich habe die komplexen Probleme einer Single-Existenz gegen die Probleme zweier Personen getauscht. ...
CATHRIN SUMFLETH Am Anfang merkt man noch nicht viel davon. Man hat eines Tages keine Lust mehr irgendetwas zu tun. N...
MICHAEL ENDE (...) Achtet immer darauf, das Gleichgewicht zwischen Kopf und Herz zu wahren. (...)

Alw...
COLLEEN HOOVER Sie kannst du vielleicht täuschen, aber mich nicht."
Er sah mich von der Seite an. Offenbar h...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
JOHN KEATS Jahrtausende lang haben die Menschen nicht herausgefunden, was es mit der Liebe auf sich hat. Wie vi...
STEPHENIE MEYER I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Das wahre Wunder, das ist nicht das Leben. Das Leben gibt es überall, es wimmelt nur so davon. Das ...
GILLES LEGARDINIER Lucas beobachtete, wie Helen aus dem Haus rannte und in Claires Wagen sprang. Sie sah erschöpft und...
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI Nein, fair ist das nicht, aber dass die Erde sich wie die Hölle anfühlt, liegt an unserer Erwartun...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Schließlich sagte ich leise: "Wie kommt's, dass du so weise bist, Effie?"
"Ich habe es siebenu...
SAMANTHA YOUNG Nur weil
mein Leben
unlogisch
ist,
heißt das
nicht, dass es
nicht fun...
TERENCE HORN Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Auch, wenn ihre Nachbarn litten - solange das Leid nicht bei ihnen selbst Einkehr hielt, zogen sie e...
MARC LEVY Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blüh'n,
Im dunkeln Laub die Goldorangen glüh'n,
Ein ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In Wirklichkeit war ich schon wach, aber ich hielt noch die Augen zu, um die Traaumgestalten noch l�...
ADELBERT VON CHAMISSO Es war so, als würde ich ausatmen, nachdem ich viel zu lange die Luft angehalten hatte.
AMY EWING Es genügt nicht keinen Gedanken zu haben, man muss auch fähig sein, diesen auszudrücken.
KARL KRAUS I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier tha...
FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Gesc...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Sein, was wir sind, und werden, was wir werden können, das ist das Ziel des Lebens.
BARUCH SPINOZA Reue ist kontraproduktiv. Etwas bereuen heißt, mit einer gewissen Bitterkeit auf Vergangenes zurüc...
COLLEEN HOOVER Wie ist das Passwort nochmal? Achja, Reinblüter.
J.K. ROWLING Es ist übrigens ganz leicht, alles kaputt zu machen, wenn man sich mit jemandem wohl fühlt. Man br...
FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: „Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell.“ Damals sc...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Wahrscheinlich kann man vom Nichtwollen seelisch nicht leben; eine Sache nicht tun wollen, das ist a...
THOMAS MANN Liebe ist schwer. Liebhaben von Mensch zu Mensch: das ist vielleicht das Schwerste, was uns aufgegeb...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Der Wahnsinn ist nur die Kehrseite der Macht, beide Ungeheuer wurden erschaffen, um einander zu näh...
FAWZI MELLAH Ich habe noch nie so lebendige Kinder gesehen (...) . Sie haben weniger als die meisten Kinder in me...
JOHN STRELECKY Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vo...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Während die erste Tasse Tee mir die Lippen und Kehle befeuchtet,
die zweite meine Trauer vertr...
LU TONG . Aber sie tatens. ER überlebte länger, aber beide hielten sich lange. Zwei der neuen SF Serien we...
STAR TREK Geschichten, das wusste Jude, waren wertvoll, denn sie halfen einem, die Welt zu verstehen. Sie lenk...
CHRISTOPH MARZI Wie sehr wollte ich sie vor dem Schmerz des Erinners bewahren.
KATE MOSSE This is the spot where I am mortal. [Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.]
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

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CHUCK PALAHNIUK Horror stories give us a way of exhausting our emotions around social issues, like a woman's rig...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing,...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun barrel between your teeth, you speak only in vowels.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The idea that population growth guarantees a better life - financially or otherwise - is a myth that...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustr...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK 'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you take my stuff apart, you'll find my choruses of repetitions are picked up almost verbatim...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you knew that your life was merely a phase or short, short segment of your entire existence, how ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstru...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow peop...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My secret wish is right now to be romancing this dead girl. A dead girl. Any dead girl. I'm not what...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they'r...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet the...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next t...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK In a way, a lot of my humor comes from presenting things that are dramatic or shocking and then peop...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you used to own, now they own you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it se...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood ed...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justifie...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is only possible with an audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things th...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The things you own end up owning you.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depre...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We just had a near-life experience!
CHUCK PALAHNIUK This is why I loved the support groups so much. If people thought you were dying, they gave you thei...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfec...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Masochism is a valuable job skill.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Someone bent on suicide won't have much sense of humor left.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Which is worse: Hell or nothing?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distrac...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sof...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Real discoveries come from chaos.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The future is just wasted on some people.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There’s always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Us. God's forgotten Science Fair project, left to grow mold. God's goldfish, ignored until we're for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beat...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I tell everybody, i'm tired of being jerked around, okay? so lets just not pretend. i don't have fuc...
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