We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
I must confess that I live a miserable life. For almost two years I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people: I am deaf.
I am a great artist and I know it. It is because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering.
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
We need a word for the opposite of 'trauma.' If trauma is a wound that has healed, then the word we need describes a wound that never closes.
Cancer is not a concentration camp, but it shares the quality of annihilation: it negates the possibility of life outside and beyond itself.
