“Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.”

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

It was the last time she’d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way.

Finger pointing does not provide answers to grieving relatives

Should prosperity befall thee, rejoice not, and should abasement come upon thee, grieve not, for both shall pass away and be no more.

If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.

Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good days remembered, and the lament cried, and the grave closed, there is no company in grief. It is a burden borne alone.

Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.