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“With each passing moment, the boundless void you left behind deepens just like the expanding depths of a black hole. All I can remember are two railway lines, poignantly mirroring our lives—parallel but fated to remain separate, forever running side by side yet never converging”

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“Because – because when you feel that bad, that low, you stop caring. About everything and everyone. You can only think of yourself.’ His voice is hoarse, hesitant and barely audible, as if he is having to force the words out. ‘The pain is so … big, it takes up all the space in your body, in your mind, and there isn’t room for anything else. All you can think about is your own suffering, and how to stop it – you’d do anything to stop it. Anything. I really mean anything.”

Book:A Voice in the Distance

Source: A Voice in the Distance

“Look, suffering doesn’t make you better, it just makes you suffer!”

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Book:MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus

Source: MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus

“No one gets a medal for suffering the most, you know,' ...”

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Book:House of Earth and Blood

Source: House of Earth and Blood

“It's not that I'm unaware of the suffering and the soon-to-be-more suffering in the world, it's that I know the suffering exists beside wet grass and a bright blue sky recently scrubbed by rain. The beauty and the suffering are equally true.”

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Book:Tom Lake

Source: Tom Lake

“Nothing about our pain takes Jesus by surprise. He is fully aware and fully in control. He knows how to bring our stories– knit together with God’s story as the true story– to a happy ending.”

Pain Suffering Jesus

Book:How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death

Source: How Should We Then Die?: A Christian Response to Physician-Assisted Death

“It [folk music] exceeded all human understanding, and if it called out to you, you could disappear and be sucked into it. I felt right at home in this mythical realm made up not with individuals so much as archetypes, vividly drawn archetypes of humanity, metaphysical in shape, each rugged soul filled with natural knowing and inner wisdom. Each demanding a degree of respect. I could believe in the full spectrum of it and sing about it. It was so real, so more true to life than life itself. It was life magnified.”

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Book:Chronicles, Volume One

Source: Chronicles, Volume One

“Another reason it is much easier to bring about suffering than happiness is that suffering is, in a sense, the default state that creeps in on us if we do not make an effort to avoid it. For example, if we do not make an effort to eat well and exercise, poor health and misery will ensue.”

Book:Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

Source: Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

“On my account, this is simply a fact about consciousness: the experience of suffering is inherently bad, and this badness carries normative force - it carries a property of this ought not occur that is all too clear, undeniable even, in the moment one experiences it. We do not derive this property. We experience it directly.”

Book:Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

Source: Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

“When I wake to consider the vaporous aether of our universe, everything feels as though contained within an impenetrably dark infinitely expanding bubble through which the empty space overtaken is sacrificially loaned unto a mockery of its antithesis, across waning dales where the dead retire, to be reclaimed by this cosmic tide, recycled, reincarnated into further being, a self-renewing system of cacophonous consignment inuring one maniacal God His baseless funereal watch, an elementary decree whose advantage succeeds into everlasting fire.”

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Book:The Tedium Lies

Source: The Tedium Lies

“The human story is filled with pain and tragedy, but among the horrors that we have perpetrated on one another the persecution and attempted termination of the Jewish people, the brutal enslavement of Africans, and the destruction of native American civilizations in many respects are unparalleled.”

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Book:Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Source: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents