5 Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes on Suffering

Gerard Manley Hopkins quotes on suffering

56. No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief, More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.

59. I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. What hours, O what black hours we have spent This night!

60. 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.

62. 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.

64. 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?