“Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.”

“Loneliness is a crowded room”

“Isolate her, and however abundant the food or favourable the temperature, she will expire in a few days not of hunger or cold, but of loneliness.”

“I've found that putting one's person in peril is not nearly as frightening as putting one's heart at risk. In the former, one might endure a momentary injury. While with the latter there is the possibility of suffering a lifetime of loneliness and regret.”

“Misery, in cold truth, is a weight less upon those who undergo it than upon the minds of those who see it; for he who is cold and starving is so busy in his efforts to obtain warmth and food that he has little time for self-pity, and endures his unhappy condition better than those who take it upon themselves to suffer for him.”

“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.”