The Brothers Karamazov
Oh, in my poor, earthly, Euclidean mind I know only that suffering exists, that no one is to blame, that one thing leads to another just like that, that life goes on and things find their own equilibrium in the end—but then, that is just Euclidean nonsense, I know that, and when it comes down to it I can’t agree to live by it!
Fyodor Dostoevsky • The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)
Deep Inside, we know that there is often nothing we can do to ease’s another pain, and we don’t know how to live with this knowledge.
The Invitation, Oriah