
p. 238 http://books.google.com/books?id=BoDMBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT238
Writings on an Ethical Life (2000)
... The perspective on ourselves that we get when we take the point of view of the universe also yields as much objectivity as we need if we are to find a cause that is worthwhile in a way that is independent of our own desires. The most obvious such cause is the reduction of pain and suffering, wherever it is to be found.
p. 238 http://books.google.com/books?id=BoDMBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT238
Writings on an Ethical Life (2000)
p. 238 http://books.google.com/books?id=BoDMBgAAQBAJ&pg=PT238
Writings on an Ethical Life (2000)
Source: God's Problem (2008), Ch. 1: 'Suffering and a Crisis of Faith', p. 1
Letter from Naples, Italy to Otto Grautoff (1896); as quoted in A Gorgon's Mask: The Mother in Thomas Mann's Fiction (2005) by Lewis A. Lawson, p. 34
Context: I think of my suffering, of the problem of my suffering. What am I suffering from? From knowledge — is it going to destroy me? What am I suffering from? From sexuality — is it going to destroy me? How I hate it, this knowledge which forces even art to join it! How I hate it, this sensuality, which claims everything fine and good is its consequence and effect. Alas, it is the poison that lurks in everything fine and good! — How am I to free myself of knowledge? By religion? How am I to free myself of sexuality? By eating rice?
“My suffering left me sad and gloomy.”
Source: Life of Pi (2001), Chapter 1, p. 3
Breaking Down the Wall of Silence (Abbruch der Schweigemauer) (1990)
“My dead go on suffering in me the pain of living.”
Mis muertos siguen sufriendo el dolor de la vida en mí.
Voces (1943)
Letter to his parents regarding World War II (April 25, 1941)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 335.