SUFFERING

If you should go skating,
On the thin ice of modern life,
Dragging behind you the silent reproach,
Of a million tear-stained eyes,
Dont be surprised when a crack in the ice,
Appears under your feet.
You slip out of your depth and out of your mind,
With your fear flowing out from behind,
You as you claw the ice.

- Roger Wates, "The Thin Ice"

Can't pretend that growing older never hurts.
- Pete Townshend, "Slit Skirts"

No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful
They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying,
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
- They Might Be Giants, "Don't Let's Start"

Beau Lausdoff learned that if we wait to tend to suffering until we dealt with our own, we'll never get around to so much as wiping a single teardrop of anyone else's.
- Gregg Levoy, Callings -

In fact, the human heart is incapable of containing the world's suffering without breaking. Yet, only by breaking does it make from for the world's suffering.
- Gregg Levoy, Callings