Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Suffering
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No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!
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I am gall, I am heartburn. God's most deep decree Bitter would have me taste: my taste was me; Bones built in me, flesh filled, blood brimmed the curse. Selfyeast of spirit a dull dough sours. I see The lost are like this, and their scourge to be As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.
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My own heart let me have more have pity on; let Me live to my sad self hereafter kind, Charitable; not live this tormented mind With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
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Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?