I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.

Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door.

Or is what remains in me like a defeated army,Fleeing in disarray from victory already won?

It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Women think that they can make sad things go away by knowing the reason that they happened.

(...) Since I was a kid.""Which you refer to as 'back when you were happy.'""Right.

I finally understood what could drive kids to show up with guns and shoot up their schools.

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

I saw the world in black and white instead of the vibrant colours and shades I knew existed.

Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.

My pleasure is only superficial: in oily droplets it lies on my skin without being absorbed.

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

I am poppies in the fieldRed and cold I am sleeping alone and I am lightI am lightI am light

Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.

Practically all the sadness we experience in life comes from our feeling sorry for ourselves.