“Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.” SelfPainLife IsHigherPatientSeekingImmortalityImmortalConquestComradeshipImmortal Life Author:Francis Quarles
“When panting sighs the bosom fill, And hands by chance united thrill At once with one delicious pain The pulses and the nerves of twain; When eyes that erst could meet with ease, Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun Ecstatic conscious unison, - The sure beginnings, say, be these Prelusive to the strain of love Which angels sing in heaven above?” HandsEyePainHeavenChanceUnitedConsciousAngelSeekingEaseNervesThrillDeliciousSighStrainPulseBosomsEcstaticUnison Author:Arthur Hugh Clough
“A village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to conquer the earth. Sure of itself, it bullies other civilizations, as a traveling salesman in a brown derby conquers the wisdom of China and tacks advertisements of cigarettes over arches for centuries dedicated to the sayings of Confucius.” WorldCountryEarthPainForceCenturyIgnoranceCivilizationPureSucceedEnglandSeekingChinaChiefsConquerBrownVillageMediocrityDedicatedCigaretteAspireLeafsBullySalesmanAdvertisementsVictorianArchesRestfulDerby Author:Sinclair Lewis
“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.” ActionPainLife IsPleasureAnimalCommonClassConcernedSeekingBeastAvoidingAnimal LifeAvoiding PainBodily FunctionsBodily Pain Author:Saint Augustine
“He imagined the pain of the world to be like some formless parasitic being seeking out the warmth of human souls wherein to incubate and he thought he knew what made one liable to its visitations. What he had not known was that it was mindless and so had no way to know the limits of those souls and what he feared was that there might be no limits.” KnowsWorldWayHumansMadeSoulMightPainKnownLimitsSeekingWarmthHuman SoulLiableMindlessVisitationAll The Pretty Horses Book:All the Pretty Horses Source: All the Pretty Horses