“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.”

“His were the eyes of one who had seen too much suffering to take suffering too seriously.”

“The reason why Jesus got into such severe trouble was that he tried to bring into the present a construction of the world, of God and of the self that belonged to a still-remote future. He was much too far ahead of his time, and suffered accordingly.”

“That may be so, but his faerie had suffered too much and he had had more than enough. If anybody so much as looked at her funny, he was going to come down hard on them with both size fourteen steel-toed boots. Then he would consider seriously the merits of evisceration.”

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”