Sympathetically Maintained Pain

Famous quotes containing the words maintained and/or pain:

    “The earth had a single light afar,
    A flickering, human pathetic light,
    That was maintained against the night,
    It seemed to me, by the people there,
    With a Godforsaken brute despair.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.”
    —A.S. (Antonia Susan)