„If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.“
Billy Joel
US-amerikanischer Sänger und Songschreiber 1949Ähnliche Zitate
— Antonella Gambotto-Burke, buch The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
Quelle: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide (2004), P. 19.
„And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.“
— Charles Bukowski, buch Hollywood
Quelle: Hollywood
— Jonathan Safran Foer, buch Extrem laut und unglaublich nah
Quelle: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
My Exit, Unfair.
Catch For Us The Foxes (2004)
„When I see myself, I wonder: what do others try to see in themselves?“
— Antonio Porchia Italian Argentinian poet 1885 - 1968
Viéndome, me pregunto: ¿qué pretenden verse los demás?
Voces (1943)
— Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
Quelle: The Courts of Chaos
„For I had expected always
Some brightness to hold in trust,
Some final innocence
To save from dust“
— Stephen Spender English poet and man of letters 1909 - 1995
"What I Expected Was" (l. 25–28). . .
— Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs
Quelle: The Silence of the Lambs
„If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.“
— Peter Sellers British film actor, comedian and singer 1925 - 1980
As quoted in The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols (2007) by James Robert Parish, p. 95
— Maeve Binchy Irish novelist 1940 - 2012
On her preference for issues that could be argued with from either side. nydailynews.com http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/popular-irish-author-maeve-binchy-dies-72-article-1.1125516?pgno=1
„I had been in the ditch for 2 and a half min. I wondered if my friends missed me.“
— Wendy Mass American children's writer 1967
Quelle: Finally
„I had no expectations. I thought, “If I don’t make it, it’s my own fault.”“
— Anchee Min Chinese-American author 1957
Quelle: On choosing to immigrate to the United States in “Anchee Min: 'If I had stayed in China, I would be dead'” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10116718/Anchee-Min-If-I-had-stayed-in-China-I-would-be-dead.html in The Telegraph (2013 Jul 4)
Kontext: In China I had to suffer and labour for the Communist Party – here I was given the opportunity to suffer and labour for myself and to build my own life. I chose to look at the glass half full – I think that’s a very immigrant attitude.
„I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.“
— Jonathan Swift Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667 - 1745
Thoughts on Various Subjects from Miscellanies (1711-1726)
— David Mitchell English novelist 1969
Interview in Stop Smiling magazine (29 June 2007) http://www.stopsmilingonline.com/story_detail.php?id=841&page=2]
