Ashley

“No one understands anyone else. We are, as the poet said, enisled in the sea of life; between us flows the sea that defines and separates us. However hard one soul struggles to know another soul, he can only judge by what words are spoken - a formless shadow on the floor of his understanding.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition

“Do not weep for those who have found Death's embrace early, for they weep for us that linger on in this mortal world of pain.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Do not believe that the person who is trying to offer you solace lives his life effortlessly among the simple and quiet words that might occasionally comfort you. His life is filled with much hardship and sadness, and it remains far behind yours. But if it were otherwise, he could never have found these words.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters on Life: New Prose Translations

“Every time there is darkness most foul,
I will burn to bring light, sight and might.
Every time there is misery unbound,
I will churn my soul to outpour delight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Call The People: My World My Responsibility