Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.
It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.
it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.
our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.
things never seem as bad as they are.
one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.