I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

The peace makers shall be called the children of God.

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, read more

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round read more

I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.