To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can't they, unless they kill you while they're trying to cure you.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

The saddest thing in life and the hardest to live through, is the knowledge that there is someone you love very much whom you cannot save from suffering.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.