The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves and one another for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry. - H. G. Wells

Man goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence. - Rabindranath Tagore

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. - C. S. Lewis

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire. - Sylvia Townsend Warner

Most men make little other use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. - Lord Halifax

Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier. - Bruce Springsteen

It is not good for man to be alone. But O my God, what a relief. - John Barrymore

Grief is a species of idleness. - Samuel Johnson

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. - William Shakespeare

We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. - John Webster

I don't wish to sign my name, though I am afraid everybody will know who the write is: one's style is one's signature always. - Oscar Wilde

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. - Mark Twain