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“Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need.”
Source : Katherine Cecil Thurston (2012). “Max”, p.228, tredition
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“People won't start dumping Google en masse; Google is a habit.”
Source : "Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better". www.nytimes.com. July 09, 2009. 
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“The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.”
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“Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.”
Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1896). “The Collected Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”
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“I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.”
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“The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.”
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“I was made at right angles to the world and I see it so. I can only see it so.”
Source : Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Poems”, p.300, Macmillan
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“I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.”
