Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it. ... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.