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"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more."
"The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal."
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
"Grief is not as heavy as guilt, but it takes more away from you."
"I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers."
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness."
"A sad thing in life is that sometimes you meet someone who means a lot to you, only to find out in the end it was never bound to be, and you just have to let go."
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
"The funniest people are the saddest once"
"She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short."
"They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person."
"Sorrow makes us all children again - destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest know nothing."
"What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then."
"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
"If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay."
"I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke."
"In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods."
"How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"
"The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow."
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
