Herman Melville Quotes about Pain

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To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain.

Herman Melville

Pain, Pity, Sensitive

Herman Melville (2012). “Bartleby and Benito Cereno”, p.18, Courier Corporation

Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of their pains, are we not like people sitting up with a corpse, and making merry in the house of the dead?

Herman Melville

Pain, Men, People

Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.208, Herman Melville

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

Herman Melville

Sweet, Kings, Pain

Herman Melville Quotes about Pain

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