All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

The longest way round is the shortest way home. (Quoting Alexander MacLaren, The Wearied Christ and Other Sermons)

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.