there does seem to me something sad in life. It is hard to say what it is. I don't mean the sorrow that we all know, like illness and poverty and death. No, it is something different. It is there, deep down, deep down, part of one, like one's breathing.
Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.420, Delphi Classics