By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
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“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
Source: The Wild Palms
“Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.”
David Zindell
(1952) American writer
Source: War in Heaven (1998), p. 173
Marsden Hartley
(1877–1943) American artist
Hartley to Kuntz, February 2, 1940, as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 147
1931 - 1943
Harry V. Jaffa
(1918–2015) American historian and collegiate professor
Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln Douglas Debates http://archive.li/CFqbg (1959), p. xi
1950s
Huldrych Zwingli
(1484–1531) leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches
Letter, May 22nd, ibid, p.279
Daniel Suarez
book
Freedom™
Source: Freedom™ (2010), Chapter 10: Corn Rebellion, Character: Jenna Fossen
Mignon McLaughlin
(1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Julian of Norwich
(1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 40
Context: But now if any man or woman because of all this spiritual comfort that is aforesaid, be stirred by folly to say or to think: If this be true, then were it good to sin to have the more meed, — or else to charge the less to sin, — beware of this stirring: for verily if it come it is untrue, and of the enemy of the same true love that teacheth us that we should hate sin only for love. I am sure by mine own feeling, the more that any kind soul seeth this in the courteous love of our Lord God, the lother he is to sin and the more he is ashamed. For if afore us were laid all the pains in Hell and in Purgatory and in Earth — death and other —, and sin, we should rather choose all that pain than sin. For sin is so vile and so greatly to be hated that it may be likened to no pain which is not sin. And to me was shewed no harder hell than sin. For a kind soul hath no hell but sin.
“The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.”
Ha Jin
(1956) Chinese-American novelist, short story writer and poet
“The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.”
Billy Corgan
(1967) American musician, songwriter, producer, and author
Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
“Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.”
Magda Goebbels
(1901–1945) German politician
Knopp, Guido, Hitler's Women
“Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she’s spent a lifetime doing it.”
Bill Clinton
(1946) 42nd President of the United States
2010s, (July 26, 2016)
“The magic of music is so strong, getting stronger, it should break any shackle of another art.”
E. T. A. Hoffmann
(1776–1822) German Romantic author
Beethovens Instrumentalmusik
Jesse Ventura
(1951) American politician and former professional wrestler
I Ain't Got Time To Bleed (1999)
Hillary Clinton
(1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016), 2016 Democratic National Convention (July 28, 2016)
Context: My friends, we've come to Philadelphia – the birthplace of our nation – because what happened in this city 240 years ago still has something to teach us today. We all know the story. But we usually focus on how it turned out - and not enough on how close that story came to never being written at all. When representatives from 13 unruly colonies met just down the road from here, some wanted to stick with the King. Some wanted to stick it to the king, and go their own way. The revolution hung in the balance. Then somehow they began listening to each other … compromising … finding common purpose. And by the time they left Philadelphia, they had begun to see themselves as one nation. That's what made it possible to stand up to a King. That took courage. They had courage. Our Founders embraced the enduring truth that we are stronger together. America is once again at a moment of reckoning. Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart. Bonds of trust and respect are fraying. And just as with our founders, there are no guarantees. It truly is up to us. We have to decide whether we all will work together so we all can rise together.