For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. / Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

The agony in my desires mirrors the poetry of my crystalline purpose.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.