“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it — that is great, that belongs to greatness.”

Source: My Friend Leonard

On Søren Kierkegaard, in "A Knight of Doleful Countenance", p. 192
Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
Context: He suffers from one great literary defect, which is often found in lonely geniuses: he never knows when to stop. Lonely people are apt to fall in love with the sound of their own voice, as Narcissus fell in love with his reflection, not out of conceit but out of despair of finding another who will listen and respond.

Source: Nietzsche (1961), p. 35

A Happy Death (1971)

The Sayings of Light and Love

Source: Surgical Anaesthesia (1894), p. 368

From, Light on Carmel: An Anthology from the Works of Brother John of Saint Samson, O.Carm.

Introduction, p. 4
A Plea for the Animals (2014)

Source: The Naming