Ella

“When the poor ghosts have gone, what remains are ordinary obligations and ordinary interests. One can live quietly and try to do tiny good things and harm no one.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sea, the Sea

“The bottom of the sea is cruel.”
― Hart Crane

“Suffering is no scandal. It is natural. Nature appoints it. All creation suffers. It suffers from having been created, if from nothing else. It suffers from being divided from God.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

“It was not for an outrage that they grieved, but for simple grief: the only alternative to which was nothing, and between grief and nothing only the coward takes nothing.”
― William Faulkner, A Fable