“…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…”

“Grief causes you to leave yourself. You step outside your narrow little pelt. And you can’t feel grief unless you’ve had love before it - grief is the final outcome of love, because it’s love lost. […] It’s the cycle of love completed: to love, to lose, to feel grief, to leave, and then to love again. Grief is the awareness that you will have to be alone, and there is nothing beyond that because being alone is the ultimate final destiny of each individual living creature. That’s what death is, the great loneliness.”

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”

“But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.”

“There is nothing lonelier than adventure.”

“At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open.”