Quotes
Who knows?
Better times may come to those in pain.
So ran the speech. Burdened and sick at heart,
He feigned hope in his look, and inwardly
Contained his anguish.
Each of us bears his own Hell.
Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.
Sorrow too deep to tell, your majesty,
You order me to feel and tell once more.
No stranger to trouble myself I am learning to care for the unhappy.
p. 793
Even here, merit will have its true reward...
even here, the world is a world of tears
and the burdens of mortality touch the heart.
Some day, perhaps, remembering even this
Will be a pleasure.
Friends and companions,
Have we not known hard hours before this?
My men, who have endured still greater dangers,
God will grant us an end to these as well.
No doubt you are right, my best of friends, there would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men—and God knows why they are so fashioned—did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.
The pupil dilates in the night, and at last finds day in it, even as the soul dilates in misfortune, and at last finds God in it.
p. 1072
In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: "Help me!"
