"Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne..." - Quote by Charles Dickens

“The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.”

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

“How beautiful you are! You are more beautiful in anger than in repose. I don't ask you for your love; give me yourself and your hatred; give me yourself and that pretty rage; give me yourself and that enchanting scorn; it will be enough for me.”

“We rejoice in the joys of our friends as much as we do our own, and we are equally grieved at their sorrows. Wherefore the wise people will feel toward their friends as they do toward themselves, and whatever labor they would encounter with a view to their own pleasure, they will encounter also for the sake of their friends.”

“Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.”

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

“Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.”

“If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold.”

“If we aren't victorious, let no man come back alive!”