“Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?” PeopleMenWantPainSufferingHouseGivenPleasureSittingFellowsCharitySelfishnessWoeFellow ManCorpsesMerrySitting Up Book:Redburn.His First Voyage Source: Redburn.His First Voyage
“I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard, for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart and were screwed together. They will knit. And the other corpse, the fractured heart, I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.” HeartLittlesHardPainTogetherWaitingHairMachinesBonesBrushesCorpsesChalice Book:Love Poems Source: Love Poems
“If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.” IfsMenWantWholePainTroubleComfortDifficultyWhole LifeCorpsesCoping Author:Menander