The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
We can’t turn life into a pleasure. But we can choose such pleasures as are worthy of us and our immortal souls.
One pleasure attached to growing older is that many things seem to be growing younger; growing fresher and more lively than we once supposed them to be.
