"Disaster appears, to crush one man now,..." - Quote by Euripides

“My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged.”

“If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.”

“Alas, how right the ancient saying is: We, who are old, are nothing else but noise And shape. Like mimicries of dreams we go, And have no wits, although we think us wise.”

“There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.”

“I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'”

“The forest fires are the worst disaster in California since I was elected.”

“This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.”

“My life is one demd horrid grind.”

“Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?”