suffering

"You've chosen the path of pain!"

"Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches."

"Let there be no illusions. The Communion is broken and fragmented. The Communion will break."

"For those of you in the administration, who are coming after me … remember, you've broken three , let's not make it four; thou shalt not kill."

"The Bodhisattva lives by the sufferer’s standard, and he must be effective in aiding those who suffer."

"The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility."

"A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox."

"Suffer fools gladly; they may be right."

"Vachel Lindsay Collection, Amherst College Archives and Special Collections"

"We now have several hundred metropolises and they all suffer in many ways from many problems because they have not been foreseen and properly conceived."

"I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."

"In a valiant suffering for others, not in a slothful making others suffer for us, did nobleness ever lie."

"Most of us live betwixt quiet despair and furious nihilism."

"Sorrow is only one of the lower notes in the oratorio of our blessedness."

"A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands."

"Roaches. If you see one of them, there's fifty thousand more where that came from."

"That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery."

"In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition."

"Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do."

"Rank.Certainly. However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible."