"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o'er-wrought heart and bids it break."

~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

~ Khalil Gibran

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

~ J.R.R. Tolkien