suffering

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

—Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)

Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk a« mpfe k o« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could be made human.

—Heine, Heinrich

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans

   To be weak is miserable Doing or suffering, but of this be sure, To do aught good never will be our task, But ever to do ill our sole delight.

—Milton,John

Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our heartsösuffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing† Better have pain than paralysis! 616

—Nightingale, Florence

Eighteen is a good time for suffering.One has all the necessary strength, and no defences.

—Golding, Sir William (Gerald)

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure.

—Berlin, Sir Isaiah

He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.

—Bentham,Jeremy

   I have got the North Pole out of my system after twenty- three years of effort, hard work, disappointments, hardships, privations, more or less suffering, and some risks† The work is the finish, the cap and climax of nearly four hundred years of effort, loss of life, and expenditure of fortunes by the civilized nations of the world, and it has been accomplished in a way that is thoroughly American. I am content.

—Peary, Robert Edwin

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the†disease.

—[great soul]

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusionthat Iamsuffering fromtheparticulardisease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

—Jerome,Jerome K(lapka)

The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of his agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent and uncertain† But there can be no doubt as to the elements in the record that have evoked the best in human nature. The Mother, the Child and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self- forgetful, with his message of peace, love and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

Even now they have not found the mouth with which to tell of their suffering.

—Achebe, Chinua originally Albert Chinualumogo

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

—Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier

To each his suff'rings, all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th'unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

—Gray,Thomas

You have been the victim of creative suffering.

—King, Martin LutherJr

If girls aren't ignorant, they're cultured† You can't avoid suffering.

—Cooper,William pseudonym of  Harry Summerfield Hoff