The world has a way of dragging down our mood.

— Dan Groat

They understood that brave men could be injured more by pity than by disease.

— Dan Groat

Those who show no loyalty give up the right to expect any.

— Dan Groat

Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.

— Dan Groat

True genius is a complete stranger to most, a momentary acquaintance to others, a lasting friend too few.

— Dan Groat

We are born among relatives. Family is defined by loyalty.

— Dan Groat

We get so beat down by what we need, sometimes we forget how to want.

— Dan Groat

We learn to love when we’re young. If we learn to hate better, it has to go somewhere. We can hate ourselves, or we can hate somebody else. Most people would rather hate somebody else.

— Dan Groat

We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy our hope. Nothing in the way of the blackness. It sinks to the bottom as the lead weight that is despair. We look forward such a short distance that our spirit is myopic, not to be corrected by any lens within our world.

— Dan Groat

What a wonderful sadness to miss the one you have loved forever, it seems, and know that she is waiting at home.

— Dan Groat