“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.”
“Thoughts of suicide have got me through many a bad night.”
“Through the years the thought of suicide had occurred to him, not as an intention, but as one of the many possibilities among the chances of life.”
“It is hard to follow one great vision in this world of darkness and of many changing shadows. Among those men get lost.”
“There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
“The trick in that town was getting through a night at all without stalling in the sludge of your own thoughts.”