“You believe you could not live with the pain. Such pain is not lived with. It is only endured. I am sorry.”
“Then a hundred sad voices lifted a wail,And a hundred glad voices piped on the gale:'Time is short, life is short,' they took up the tale: 'Life is sweet, love is sweet, use to-day while you may;Love is sweet, and to-morrow may fail; Love is sweet, use to-day.”
“Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain.”
“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.”