Laurence Sterne

God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!

Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.