Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
-Thomas Hardy
Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
-William Goldman
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope
In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
-Lord Byron