„The demand for equality and identity arises precisely in order to avoid that fear, that feeling of inferiority. Nobody is better, nobody is superior, nobody feels challenged, everybody is "safe." Furthermore, if identity, if sameness has been achieved, then the other person's actions and reactions can be forecast. With no (disagreeable) surprises, a warm herd feeling of brotherhood emerges. These sentiments -- this rejection of quality (which ineluctably differs from person to person) -- explain much concerning the spirit of the mass movements of the last two hundred years. Simone Weil has told us that the "I" comes from the flesh, but "we" comes from the devil.“

„Baby,
Oh the secret's safe with me.
There's nowhere else in the world that I could ever be.
And baby don't it feel like I'm all alone?
Who's gonna be there after the last angel has flown
And I've lost my way back home?
I think nobody knows, no.
I said nobody knows.
Nobody cares.It's win or lose, not how you play the game.
And the road to darkness has a way
Of always knowing my name.
But I think nobody knows,
No no.
Nobody knows, no no no no.“

—  Pink (singer) American singer-songwriter 1979

Nobody Knows, written by Pink and Billy Mann
Song lyrics, I'm Not Dead (2006)

„The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.“

—  Franz Kafka author 1883 - 1924

Quelle: Diaries of Franz Kafka

„Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.“

—  Joseph Addison politician, writer and playwright 1672 - 1719

„I feel like, as a person of color, I’ve always been kind of doing the work against the tide…I feel like change is coming, and change sometimes comes too slow for a lot of us. But it comes.“

—  Jacqueline Woodson American writer 1963

On writing in an industry that typically prefers White writers in “ Jacqueline Woodson: 'I don't want anyone to feel invisible'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/25/jacqueline-woodson-national-book-awards-invisible in The Guardian (2014 Nov 25)

„The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.“

—  Alfred Adler Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist 1870 - 1937

From a new translation of "Progress in Individual Psychology" ("Fortschritte der Individualpsychologie", 1923), a journal article by Alfred Adler, in the AAISF/ATP Archives.

„Nobody, nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair.“

—  John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 9 - p.70 [Angela] [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1982 reprint.]

„Every house needs a warming spot where persons coming in from the outside chill can, if for no other reason, warm hands and hearts.“

—  Ken Kern American writer

The Owner Built Home: A How-to-do-it Book (1972)

„A strange calm has come over my feelings and disposition last two days. Feel a strong will to achieve something forming and growing. …Maybe I am squarely facing reality at last and am beginning to mature mentally.“

—  Virgil John Tangborn 1920 - 1944

March 27, 1942

„I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action“

—  Jean Dubuffet sculptor from France 1901 - 1985

Quelle: posthumous, p. 9

„No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.“

—  Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Also sprach Zarathustra

Quelle: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

„Nobody can tell you that you are content until you feel it in your own heart. When a heart is okay, then it’s a heartfelt feeling and you know it. Not by the virtue of somebody having to tell you this, somebody having to explain you this, but it comes from the feeling of the inside. Knowledge works from the inside out, not from the outside in. Your own experience is the only thing that’ll satisfy that thirst.“

—  Prem Rawat controversial spiritual leader 1957

Rome, Italy August 22, 1985
1980s

„The Bourgeois who has religious feelings sees very clearly the absolute necessity of serving two masters at the same time in order to achieve success in his business, which naturally comes before everything else.“

—  Léon Bloy French writer, poet and essayist 1846 - 1917

Quelle: Pilgrim of the Absolute (1947), p. 113

„What kills a relationship between two people is precisely the lack of challenge, the feeling that nothing is new anymore. We need to continue to be a surprise for each other.“

—  Paulo Coelho, buch Adultery

Quelle: Adultery

„Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.“

—  Don DeLillo American novelist, playwright and essayist 1936

„The dance around the golden calf of identity is the last and greatest orgy of counterenlightenment. Identity is the magic word of a partially hidden, partially open conservatism that has inscribed personal identity, occupational identity, national identity, political identity, female identity, male identity, class identity, party identity, etc., on its banner.“

—  Peter Sloterdijk German philosopher 1947

Quelle: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), pp. 60-61

„Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else.“

—  Richard Koch German medical historian and internist 1950

Koch (2012) in: " Interview: Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle http://boingboing.net/2011/05/12/8020.html" on boingboing.net May 12, 2012.

„It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„When the same person or persons (or the same type of person) leads a movement from its inception to maturity, it usually ends in disaster.“

—  Eric Hoffer, buch The True Believer

The True Believer (1951), Part Four: Beginning and End

„True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.“

—  Frederick Herzberg American psychologist 1923 - 2000

Attributed to Frederick Herzberg in: Stuart Crainer, ‎Des Dearlove (2004), Financial Times Handbook of Management. p. 229