Grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels....

Grief is love turned into an eternal missing

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Usually time alters and affects everything, but when someone you love dies time cannot change that, no amount of time will ever change that, so time stops having any meaning.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.

The gastliness of nothing. Because I was nobody's sister now.

When I saw your strand of hair I knew that grief is love turned into an eternal missing.

But grief is the ultimate unrequited love. However hard and long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels...

An explosion in space makes no sound at all.

Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?

Man's capacity to innovate should not exceed his ability to live in peace.

A long project is like a secret houseguest, hidden in your study, waiting to be fed and visited.

Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.

Feelings aren't forever. Time waits for no one, but progress waits for man to enact it.

Ultimately, contentment is more a shift in attitude than a change in circumstances.

There are very few honest friends--the demand is not particularly great.

I don't have to be an expert. I just have to care.

What is Paris? ... Where nobody throws stones, for all live in glass houses.

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.