“Long life is a burden, when it's spent in misery.”
“When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!”
“She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity.”
“As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.”
“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”
“It's the touching they both long for. The holding. Spent their whole lives, each without any.”