Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But they grieve for many years.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

Boredom is vastly underrated. Boredom means that nothing is trying to kill you every day.

But a living is not a life.

Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.