Valmiki to Brahma who appeared before him. p. 5.
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“I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain,
the only thing that's real.”
Trent Reznor (1965) American musician
Hurt, from The Downward Spiral (1994).
Song lyrics
“If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.”
Giannina Braschi book Yo-Yo Boing!
Yo-Yo Boing! (Spanglish novel, 1998)
Honoré de Balzac book A Woman of Thirty
Il y a beaucoup d'hommes dont le cœur est puissamment ému par la seule apparence de la souffrance chez une femme: pour eux la douleur semble être une promesse de constance ou d'amour.
Source: A Woman of Thirty (1842), Ch. I: Early Mistakes.
“He who grows old in love, besides all pain
Which waits such passion, well deserves a chain.”
Ludovico Ariosto book Orlando Furioso
A chi in amor s'invecchia, oltr'ogni pena,
Si convengono i ceppi e la catena.
Canto XXIV, stanza 2 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
Roberto Clemente (1934–1972) Puerto Rican baseball player
Addressing reporters at post-game press conference on Roberto Clemente Day, as quoted in "Roberto Clemente's a Man of 2 Lives ... and 2 Loves" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zbYcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NWYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2327%2C2876682 by the Associated Press, in The Sarasota Herald-Tribune (July 26, 1970) <br class="br">Other, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1970</big>
Adelaide Anne Procter (1825–1864) English poet and songwriter
"A Lost Chord".
Legends and Lyrics: Second Series (1861)
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
Letters of C. S. Lewis (29 April 1959), para. 1, p. 285 — as reported in The Quotable Lewis (1989), p. 469
Phil Ochs (1940–1976) American protest singer and songwriter
"The Flower Lady" http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics/flower-lady.html <br class="br">Pleasures of the Harbor (1967)
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
Variant translation to modern English: I am that which is highest, I am that which is lowest, I am that which is ALL.
The Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 72
Context: Thus is that Blissful Sight end of all manner of pain to the loving soul, and the fulfilling of all manner of joy and bliss. And that shewed He in the high, marvellous words where He said: I IT AM that is highest; I IT AM that is lowest; I IT AM that is ALL.
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Fresco (2000), Chapter 20, p. 157
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Eight, Healing Ourselves
Amos Tversky (1937–1996) Israeli psychologist
attributed, but source not available.
Attila (406–453) King of the Hunnic Empire
Turkish Wikipedia
https://quotestats.com/topic/attila-hun-quotes/
Frithjof Schuon (1907–1998) Swiss philosopher
We would reply that these experiences are trials in relation to our faith, which indicates that with regard to troubling or painful experiences we have duties resulting from our human vocation; in other words, we must prove our faith in relation to God and in relation to ourselves. In relation to God, by our intelligence, our sense of the absolute, and thus our sense of relativities and proportions; and in relation to ourselves, by our character, our resignation to destiny, our gratitude. There are in fact two ways to overcome the traces that evil, or more precisely suffering, leaves in the soul: these are, firstly, our awareness of the Sovereign Good, which coincides with our hope to the extent that this awareness penetrates us; and secondly, our acceptance of what, in religious language, is called the "will of God"; and assuredly it is a great victory over oneself to accept a destiny because it is God's will and for no other reason.
[2003, Survey of Metaphysics and Esoterism, World Wisdom, 215, 978-0-94153227-3]
Spiritual life, Trials