“Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own.”

“To-day, let us rise and go to our work. To-morrow, we shall rise and go to our reward.”

Richard Fuller (minister) (1804–1876) United States Baptist minister

“without you, dearest dearest I couldn't see or hear or feel or think - or live - I love you so and I'm never in all our lives going to let us be apart another night.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

“God has such a deep reverence for our freedom that he'd rather let us freely go to Hell than be compelled to go to Heaven.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

“The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.”

Guy Finley (1949) American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher, and former professional songwriter and musician

“Call a truce, then, to our labours let us feast with friends and neighbours,
And be merry as the custom of our caste;
For if “faint and forced the laughter,” and if sadness follow after,
We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“After singing stop the war in Croatia for a couple of months we realized nobody was going to give us a hand and we had to do this on our own.”

Goran Višnjić (1972) Croatian actor

“Let us call our man, the hero of this story, Kingbitter. We imagine a man, and a name to go with him. Or conversely, let us imagine the name, and the man to go with it.”

Imre Kertész (1929–2016) Hungarian writer

“What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

“We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private-sector information or our public-sector information.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady