The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to read more

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Even Pain pricks to livelier living.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of read more

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

One often calms one's grief by recounting it.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.