“Hope was never meant to beA future shared alone,As life cannot be won or lostIt was never ours to own.”

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”

“Let each of us examine his thoughts; he will find them wholly concerned with the past or the future. We almost never think of the present, and if we do think of it, it is only to see what light is throws on our plans for the future. The present is never our end. The past and the present are our means, the future alone our end. Thus we never actually live, but hope to live, and since we are always planning how to be happy, it is inevitable that we should never be so.”

“We are always alone. We are never alone. Even in the center of a crowd of friends , we cannot escape our apartness; even in the locked and darkened room, we cannot cut ourselves off from our sense of the life going on outside.”

“The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.”

“To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing”