“Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.”

“No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges.  That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise their woes and heartaches.  But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars.”

“It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.”

“For good or evil, these waifs on the great stream of London life had drifted together; how long the current should continue thus to bear them side by side- how long, indeed, they should float on the surface of the stream at all, was a question with which for the time being, they did not very much trouble themselves.”

“If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.”

“Life is so meaningless without trouble.”