when all that makes life bright dies

"of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. These is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting buying, selling, talking, reading and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through; and this yet remained to me."