• “The ineloquent man was wiser than the wise.”

    —Saint John Chrysostom, On the Vanity of Riches
    HOMILY Two
    After Eutropios, having been found outside the church, was taken captive

  • Normal People (2020)

  • “You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”
    ―Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  • “They don’t remember something happening, but remember something not happening. They’ve missed out, and now they’re obsessed with the past that they did not live that does not exist for them.”

    commentary on The Unhappiest Person in the World | Soren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or

  • The greatest source of tears which the saints, the desert ascetics, used is weeping for sins. It is a source out of which abundant tears spring forth, for everyone who offers a true repentance with all their heart, feeling sorry for their sins, which caused all these sufferings to their compassionate Redeemer, portraying His wound before them and His open side by the spear of their sins. Therefore, you can do nothing but weep and shed tears.

    They are the tears of regret for the lost time in entertainment and the false happiness in the vain pleasures of the world.

    —H.E. Metropolitan Youssef, How to Pray

  • and existential questions that loom ever greater as she ages. “I was sad and frivolous, determined and listless,” she confesses at one point, reflecting on her adolescence.

    —Roger Ebert

  • “…languor of lost youth”

    —Roger Ebert

  • “How intoxicating it can be to discover one’s life as full of enigmas and possibilities, as we do when we’re young, and how melancholic it can be to reflect on the experience and find it limned out by loneliness and regret.”

    —Roger Ebert