“A certain cynicism, born of the life she has led; a streak of strange wisdom; the wistfulness behind the gaiety; sometimes fear; and nearly always the memory of loneliness that hurts the soul.”

“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”

“She awakened your soul, but the soft whispers of wisdom led elsewhere. The perfect love, a true connection at a time not willing to wait.”

“I know the dark delight of being strange,
The penalty of difference in the crowd,
The loneliness of wisdom among fools”

“Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.”

“People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. ”

“We admitted that everything living is born of the dead. For if the soul existed before birth, and in coming to life and being born can be born only from death and dying, must she not after death continue to exist, since she has to be born again?”

“Cynicism did not seem nearly so impressively daring to her now as it had when she was twenty.”

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”