4/24/06

We enjoy warmth because we have been cold.
We appreciate light because we have been in darkness.
By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness.
-David Weatherford

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
-Joseph Stalin

The silence that guards the tomb does not reveal God’s secret in the obscurity of the coffin, and the rustling of the branches whose roots suck the body’s elements do not tell the mysteries of the grave, by the agonized sighs of my heart announce to the living the drama which love, beauty, and death have performed.
-Kahlil Gibran

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year’s course.
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
-Carl Jung

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.
-Bill Blass

I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it.
Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
-Frederick Douglass

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
-Kahlil Gibran

Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
-Louis E. Boone

Depression, when it’s clinical, is not a metaphor. It runs in families, and it’s known to respond to medication and to counseling.
However truly you believe there’s a sickness to existence that can never be cured, if you’re depressed you will sooner or later surrender and say: I just don’t want to feel bad anymore.
The shift from depressive realism to tragic realism, from being immobilized by darkness to being sustained by it, thus strangely seems to require believing in the possibility of a cure…
-Jonathan Franzen

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
-Winston Churchill

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
-Jean de La Fontaine

Love can sometimes be magic.
But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
-Javan

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.
-William Blake

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
-Jim Rohn

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.
His heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
– Pearl S. Buck

No my friend, darkness is not everywhere, for here and there I find faces illuminated from within; paper lanterns among the dark trees.
-Carole Borges

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary.
Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
-Albert Einstein

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.
-Dante

Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat
-Henry Fosdick

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
-Oscar Wilde

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
-Eric Hoffer

We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.
-R.W. Dale

…then laugh, leaning back in my arms, for life is not a paragraph, and death I think is no parenthesis.
-e.e. cummings

You can choose to be happy or sad and whichever you choose that is what you get.
No one is really responsible to make someone else happy, no matter what most people have been taught and accept as true.
-Sidney Madwed

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.
-Gloria Steinem

Suicide is not a remedy.
-James A. Garfield

It’s such a straightforward sort of colour.
I never squint at a black tee shirt, wondering if it goes with my black jeans.
I never have to get up in the morning, thinking "I wonder what colour I’ll wear today."
And black goes with anything.
As long as the anything is black.
– Neil Gaiman

I laugh, I smile, and I take Prozac
-Anonymous

The people in the darker parts of society need God as much as anyone else
-Anonymous

Why is my existence so perfect with dark places? And why do I no longer care?
-Lemuel W. H. Ranier

Beward of desperate steps.
The darkest day,
Live till to-morrow, will have pass’d away.
-Cowper

What is it about the moonlight that draws my existence in?
The night?
The perfect death?
I would give up my dark solitude to know."
-Ariadne Zeitwellen

There are many dreams to be found in damnation.
But you may need to sacrifice your cryptic spirit to find them…
-Anonymous