“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Other desires and other hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!”

— Emily Brontë

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

— Charles Dickens

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar.”

— Victor Hugo

“I cannot recall those years without horror, loathing, and heart-rending pain.”

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