Arvilla Seals

“Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Often, the outward and visible material signs and symbols of happiness and success only show themselves when the process of decline has already set in. The outer manifestations take time - like the light of that star up there, which may in reality be already quenched, when it looks to us to be shining its brightest.”
― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

“So It Goes”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“that men are more effectively drawn together by goodwill than by pacts, by hearts rather than by words.”
― Thomas More, Utopia