Today is cruel, tomorrow is crueler, and the day after tomorrow is beautiful, but most people will die tomorrow night, so don't give up today.
The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
"A story is only as strong as its silences."