Cindy Johnson

“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
― P.G. Wodehouse , The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”
― Victor Hugo

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
― W.B. Yeats