If there is a nobleness in continuing to live, it is a nobleness of suffering, not a nobleness of reforming and transforming the world. Philip Edwards, Tragic Balance in Hamlet
Life is about suffering - don’t you know that? A Bittersweet Life 2005 starring Lee Byung-hun & Kim Yeong-cheol & Shin Min-ah & Hwang Jung-min & Kim Roi-ha & Jin Goo & Kee Ki-young & Oh Dal-su & Kim Hae-hon & Eric Mun& Jeon Gook-hwan et al, director Kim Jee-woon, villain to hero
I’m here to help you suffer. You gave us up, your children, you gave us up … You’re not going to score any more … You are a horrible horrible waste of life. Bad Blood s1e6: You Can Never Hold Back Spring, Declan to father, Citytv 2017
The foundation of all mental illness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering. Carl Jung
The Book of Job: it asks a profound question – Why does God allow good people to suffer? Robert Winston, The Story of God, BBC 2005
The impact had broken up the plane. How arbitrary it was! Why had some people been destroyed while others had escaped with just a black eye? Storyville – Cannibals in the Andes, Roberto Canessa, BBC 2012
We had to do things I don’t think any animal is capable of like eating its own species. ibid. survivor
And we had to debase ourselves as far as any human being is capable of. ibid.
Everything rushes forward because of the deceleration. And then a tomb-like silence. ibid.
There’s the general feeling that we either die or we do this thing. ibid.
Now it is a matter of life and death. Death was lying still and watching everyone gradually fading away. ibid.
From that moment we were taking a leap into the unknown. ibid.
The cold slowly extinguishes you from the inside out. ibid.
Such desperation, anxiety and fear. ibid.
I had a reaction against this God. I just couldn’t understand how He could have killed all of them. ibid.
The group had to be united or we would never win out. ibid.
It’s agonising not knowing how long this suffering will last. ibid.
We would show ourselves to the world in all our nakedness. ibid.
My son said, They lent their muscles so we could walk. ibid.
For Our Friends, Forever Dear. ibid. caption
Within a matter of weeks, freedom riders are boarding buses all over the South. The riders are harassed and jailed, sometimes they are beaten by angry crowds of whites while southern sheriffs look the other way. John Lewis: Good Trouble, news report