Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

More from Carl Sandburg

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
• The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
• Accept loss forever
• A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. Essays, "Character," 1844