suffering

"How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow."

"I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath."

"Old Mathews drank to drown sorrow, which is the strongest swimmer in the world."

"That's the thing about pain," Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. "It demands to be felt."

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."

"There is an utter ignorance of, and indifference to, our sufferings and privations….What care they for us, provided we be submissive, pay the taxes, furnish recruits for the Army and Navy and bless th…"

"On not catching the poacher : R.S. Thomas" in Thumbscrew No. 4"

"Indifference, if let alone, will produce obduracy; and obduracy, if let alone, will produce torment."

"A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information."

"Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains."

"I'm Bill Allred, Painter of Light."

"We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void."

"The burden of the incommunicable."

"4084. Search not a Wound too deep, lest thou make a new one."

"I have many ideas for lights. I will paint only lights at night."

"241. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name."

"No one should be hurt in the slightest’ - such should be one’s egoism. That is a ‘positive’ ego."

"'Do not let the title of scholar, or poet, or lord, intimidate you overmuch. More importantly, do not delude yourself into imagining that such men and women are loftier, or somehow cleverer or purer o…"

"This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it."

"It hurts, but it hurts soooo Good!"