“Your body is honest. When you’re in physical pain, you cry.
But the heart is a liar. It stays quiet even when it’s hurting. Then, when you’re asleep, you finally weep and whimper like a dog.”
— 조용, “It’s Okay Not to Be Okay”
“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
— Homer, “The Iliad”
“There was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.”
Thomas Hardy on Gabriel Oak’s misfortunes in “Far From the Madding Crowd”
“You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.”
W. Somerset Maugham
“Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.”
Peter Shaffer