“ that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ”

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”

“There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.”

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage”

“Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life.....The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worth while and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die. ”

“It's really very unpleasant. And not being able to say anything to answer back makes it rankle more, if you know what I mean.”