“He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.”
“The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.”
“. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.”
“When he was a boy he was happy when the men arrived, and in a way wanted them to remain forever--but he was also anxious that they had arrived, that he was no longer alone. The sorrow came from those two feelings--the happiness of company, the anxiety of interrupted solitude. That was what he had felt, he thought, and what to some extent he still felt.”
“Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving. ”
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.”