Status Updates From Der alte Mann und das Meer

I wish too many things.

“ Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”

“It is silly not to hope, he thought. Besides, I believe it is a sin. Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also, I have no understanding of it.

“ ‘But man is not made for defeat,’ he said. ‘A man can be destroyed but not defeated.’”

“ I must hold his pain where it is, he thought. Mine does not matter. I can control mine but his pain could drive him mad.”

“And pain does not matter to a man.”