"Let the tears which fell, and the..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”

“If an enthusiastic, ardent, and ambitious man marry a wife on whose name there is a stain, which, though it originate in no fault of hers, may be visited by cold and sordid people upon her, and upon his children also: and, in exact proportion to his success in the world, be cast in his teeth, and made the subject of sneers against him: he may, no matter how generous and good his nature, one day repent of the connection he formed in early life; and she may have the pain and torture of knowing that he does so.”

“There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.”

“Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.”

“When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.”

“People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on familiar roads and being brought up short by the grim frontier post that now blocks them.”

“It is fun to have fun.”

“How good life is when one does something good and just!”

“when you came you cried and everybody smiled with joy; when you go smile and let the world cry for you.”