痛苦
The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.
Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
Literature is the art of turning pain into beauty.
The more you know, the more you suffer.
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails... adds a deeper meaning to his life.
Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning.
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.
