Jeśli śmierć to ciemność i pustka, to ona jest już martwa. I to tylko głupi przypadek, że jej serce wciąż bije.

A czym jest ostatecznie perfekcja? - zaczęła się zastanawiać. - Jest nudą. Nie stanowi żadnego wyzwania.

Jest ci zimno, ponieważ jesteś sama; żadne zetknięcie nie krzesze z ciebie tego ognia, który jest w tobie. Jest ci niedobrze, ponieważ najlepsze z uczuć, danych człowiekowi, najwyższe i najsłodsze, trzyma się z dala od ciebie. Jesteś niemądra, ponieważ jakkolwiek cierpisz, nie chcesz przyznać skinieniem tego uczucia, nie chcesz posunąć się krokiem tam, gdzie ono na ciebie czeka.

Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?"
"Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian. "I don't understand it. But for that matter I don't understand how a spider learned to spin a web in the first place. When the words appeared, everyone said they were a miracle. But nobody pointed out that the web itself is a miracle."
"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle-it's just a web."
"Ever try to spin one?" asked Dr. Dorian.

“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! — I have as much soul as you — and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God's feet, equal — as we are!”


― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre