“Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it.”
Source: The Scent of Water
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Elizabeth Goudge 20
English fiction writer 1900–1984Related quotes
“Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.”
Interview with Evelyn Rich (March 1985)
“Forgive me, Marie. I was suffering too much. I wanted to be done with it.”
Source: Andre Cornelis (1886), Ch. 13
Context: I seized the sheet of paper; the lines were written upon it in characters rather larger than usual. How it shook in my hand while I read these words: "Forgive me, Marie. I was suffering too much. I wanted to be done with it." And he had had the strength to affix his signature!
So then, his last thought had been for her. In the brief moments that had elapsed between my blow with the knife, and his death, he had perceived the dreadful truth, that I should be arrested, that I would speak to explain my deed, that my mother would then learn his crime — and he had saved me by compelling me to silence.
cited in la Repubblica, 25 April 2002.
2000s - 2010s
Interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews, December 2005.
2003–2007 Governor of Massachusetts
