We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.
I don’t expect answers from anyone. The most I ever hope for is that here and there one may find someone who at least acknowledges the question!
He was a man built to yearn for what he could not have.
Sometimes when we are drowning in our own loss we lash out–anger is momentarily easier to cope with.
…perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.
People lie to cover their mistakes, and then make even worse ones to cover their lies.
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
Disillusion in an ache that eats into the dreams of goodness, of love, of any value that matters – even to the very belief in life.
That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.
You can like people and still betray them, if it was for a cause you believed in passionately enough. You have to betray other people rather than betray yourself–if that’s what it comes to.
Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,’ to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If you wear it on every other occasion this entire season, no one will notice or care.
To take for granted one’s blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely.
She knew in her heart that to be without optimism that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain was a fatal flaw the seed of death.