“For all the happiness mankind can gain
is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.”
~Dryden, The Indian Emperor
“The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.” ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
“A million words would not bring you back. I know because I’ve tried. Neither would a million tears. I know because I’ve cried.”
“Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.”
~F. W. Bourdillon, Light
“Her life is a façade of colors drawn with the crayon of hope. She’s naïve enough to think her mystical dream of love will someday be a reality. Her wistful heart will not listen to the candor of her conscience.” ~Susan Ehring
“I love sleep. My life has a tendency to fall apart when I’m awake.” ~Ernest Hemingway
And with that said, goodnight.