“Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to loss.”

― Elizabeth Alexander

What cannot be said will be wept.

Sappho

'I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.'

― Jung

'I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.'

― Dylan Thomas

'I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down.The other accident is Diego.'

- Frida Kahlo

'... and besides you can't fully know how wrong a thing is until you've done it...'

'Such a thirst was not made to be wasted.'

- Eric Gill, Autobiography

'It is one of the difficulties of this book that I must always be appearing on a higher plane than that to which I properly belong - or, in case, per impossibile, I under-rate myself, at least I must always be omitting the evidence of my sinfulness. And it is a hateful situation. I do not want to appear other than I am - partly because of the ( Read more... )

'I was lost but I was free'

- 'All The While', The Pines

Every heart, every heart
to love will come
but like a refugee

- Leonard Cohen, Anthem

'And don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens -- The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.'

- John Steinbeck on falling in love, 1958