“Everything is sorrow for the wise.”

“Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything is all you’ve got…and after Everything is nothing. So you were wise to welcome Everything, the good and the bad alike, and cling to it all. Gather it in. Seek the meaning in sorrow and don’t ever turn away, not once, from here until the end. Because it is all the same, it is all unfathomable, and it is all infinitely preferable to the one dreadful alternative.”

“There is beauty and darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life in death, thorns on the rose.”

“There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.”

“Everything has its price: sorrow for happiness; birth for love; death for birth.”

“In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.”