Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Music, New Jersey (1988)
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Stevie Wonder (1950) American musician
You Are The Sunshine of My Life
Song lyrics, Talking Book (1972)
Amy Winehouse (1983–2011) English singer and songwriter
Back To Black
Song lyrics, Back To Black (2006)
“It was a mite that held itself most dear,
So small I could have drowned it with a tear.”
Karl Shapiro (1913–2000) Poet, essayist
"Interludes" III, in From Darkness To Light : A Confession of Faith in the form of an Anthology (1956) edited by Victor Gollancz
Context: Then in my heart a fear
Cried out, "A life — why, beautiful, why dead!" It was a mite that held itself most dear,
So small I could have drowned it with a tear.
Richard John Neuhaus (1936–2009) Canadian-American Christian writer
"Wild Moralists in the Animal Kingdom" https://www.firstthings.com/article/2003/04/wild-moralists-in-the-animal-kingdom, in First Things (April 2003).
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author
Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet
From the poem I Hear an Army http://www.bartleby.com/103/128.html