“There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I for one am afraid that our American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a wanton forgetting of an essential part of a full life. I further am wary in the face of this possibility: to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inau…”— Eric G. Wilson, amazon.com
“Although the rain is neutral, although the rain is impersonal, it becomes for me a haunting and nostalgic sound.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com