suffering

"Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain…"

"Portrait likenesses cooked and preserved in memory, likenesses burst in the memory of Mr. Jean Dubuffet, painter."

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me."

"Tsar Alexander reached Paris."

"Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility."

"Ahmadinejad's dictatorial ways have hurt Iran's image across the globe and could be a prelude to dictatorship."

"Gorbachev as McDermott Guest Lecturer at University of Dallas"

"John Constable – English Landscape Painter"

"“It is not foolish,” Dachensol Polchina agreed. “It is new, which is not the same thing."

"It's all over, so let's not burden the telegraph system."

"Chinua Achebe: The Lecture Heard Around The World"

"The greater the calamity, the tougher the fibre. It is tragedy that makes a man."

"A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound."

"If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead."

"If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly; if they be na inhabited, what a waste of space."

"It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys."

"One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness."

"I like Mr. Gorbachev. We can do business together."

"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

"He had wished to convince himself that Comarre was evil. Now he knew that it was not. There would always be, even in Utopia, some for whom the world had nothing to offer but sorrow and disillusion."