Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.

When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

To have a traitor for an ally is to have an enemy in waiting

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

That which yields is not always weak.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.

All knowledge is worth having

The pain of the flesh is naught to that of the heart

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.

LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes.GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

Like most girls, I constantly have to watch my weight, because if I didn't my curves would get ahead of me.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

The human mind is not rich enough to drive many horses abreast and wants one general scheme, under which it strives to bring everything.

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

It is true I wished to escape; and so I wish still: is not this lawful for all prisoners?

I never say I am a guru.

A city's art must give the impression that art is as indispensable a thing as water, or food.

I go to the gym, I swim daily and from time to time I meet with friends and do extra-curricular stuff.