“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― The Little Mermaid
― The Little Mermaid
“The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.”
― Reached
― Reached
“I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.”
― Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
― Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle
“The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your misery? Their tears are real, but they are not for you.”
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