I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still… - Saul Bellow

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By
means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou
relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go
in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's
beds, too.

His mind took one of its odd jumps. He opened a clean page in his grimy notebook, and in the twig-divided shade of a wild cherry, infested with tent caterpillars, he began to make notes for a poem.

Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.