First dentistry was painless; then bicycles were chainless; and now, it seems, they're making progress in a matter that even I thought hopeless—namely, making love-making brainless.

Arthur Guiterman

Sadness

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

William Cullen Bryant

Suffering

Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything…. That’s what’s so terrible.

William Faulkner

Evil

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Truman Capote

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