Regarding pain
By Victor | Published: July 25, 2016
Photo by Richard Hines
Not of others as Susan Sontag wrote, but Regarding the Pain of Ours no Regarding Our Pain no Regarding My Pain.
Today just two quotes because the Wikipedia is better on this than the Vicipedia which will also be getting some new entries in the next month.
Pain is always new to the sufferer, but loses its originality for those around him.
Alphonse Daudet, La doulou: (la douleur), 1887-1895 (Paris: Librairie de France, 1930) p. 16; Julian Barnes (ed. and trans.) In the Land of Pain (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002) p. 19.
There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.
Simone Weil (1910-1943) French Philosopher
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