suffering

"She waits until her brokenness can break her."

"We only become beasts—we become worse than beasts—when we torment others."

"...there is a striking similarity in the surrealist and abstract painters attitude to the object;both have a horror of it in its proper context."

"That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound."

"Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible."

"A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone."

"The diocesan papers are full of stories about atrocities in China and the sufferings of the Church and I get a letter from Betty Chang from Tientsin about the communes and the full-employment, etc. Wh…"

"The bow too tensely strung is easily broken."

"We are striving for the amelioration of this suffering world. Let us be economical."

"All my canvases I paint after sketches."

"Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little."

"The ring of a false coin is not more recognizable than that of a rhyme setting forth a simulated sorrow."

"My ankle hurts from dancing last night so there is pain. But the pain doesn't hurt me for there is no me."

"Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself."

"In the quiet ache of the evening, Alobar listened to his calluses grow."

"To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously."

"It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten. And he'd gotten plenty."

"Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach."

"In wretched outcomes, the devil is in the details."

"58: Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."