“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”

“To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.”

“O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past”

“Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.”

“I had been simply treating water, settling on surviving and avoiding pain rather than being actively involved in seeking out life.”