Top 8 Quotes by Suzanne Massie

Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an

Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty.

Suzanne Massie

Wall, Pain, Glasses

Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

Suzanne Massie

Evil, Acquiescence, Brushing

Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

Suzanne Massie

Best Effort, People, Frustrated

Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

Evil is near. Sometimes late at night the air grows strongly clammy and cold around me. I feel it brushing me. All that the Devil asks is acquiescence not struggle, not conflict. Acquiescence.

Suzanne Massie

Struggle, Night, Air

When pain has been constant, it has its own momentum and laws. The vital thing is to break its ascendancy over the mind.

Suzanne Massie

Pain, Law, Mind

Robert K. Massie, Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

Suzanne Massie

Russia, Despair, Rhythm

Robert Massie; Suzanne Massie (1975). “Journey”

France, like every other Western country except the United States, has long accepted the principle that comprehensive health care is the right of every citizen. No Frenchman need ever fear that catastrophic illness will wipe him out financially. How long, do you suppose, will it take us, in the United States, to catch up?

Suzanne Massie

Country, Long, Principles