There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me