The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Throw off your grief, ' doubters imply, 'and we can all go back to pretending death doesn't exist, or at least is comfortably far away.

Opera cuts to the chase—as death does. An art which seeks, more obviously than any other form, to break your heart.

My love is for you life after life, for infinite time, my love is for you, forever.

A lamp cannot play the role of the Sun and the Sun cannot play the role of a lamp.

It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

You are eternity's hostage A captive of mine.

As somebody who campaigned to leave the EU, I believe we have a bright future ahead of us- but we have to get it right.

You can't look in the face of adoration and be cruel.

Sometimes I can't believe half of the love that I get.

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?