Lacuna

“No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
― Mark Twain

“Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.”
― Charles Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin: Interviews