“My sorrow is my castle.”

“My father said "When in doubt, castle."”

Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country

“Not all his men may sever this,
 It yields to friends', not monarchs', calls;
My whinstone house my castle is—
 I have my own four walls.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

“Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Return of Sherlock Holmes

“I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow”

Wallace Stegner (1909–1993) American historian, writer, and environmentalist

“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“In sorrow I am sending a feeble voice, O Six Powers of the World. Hear me in my sorrow, for I may never call again. O make my people live!”

Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader

“I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.”

Rabih Alameddine book An Unnecessary Woman

“Conversations bore me, to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to my soul.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author