Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Source: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Topic
The collection circles a single idea: the quality of your attention determines the quality of your life. James on caring enough to attain a result; Xenophon on accuracy over speed; Austen on quickness being prized by its possessor without examination of the imperfection it accompanies. Hazlitt: we see nature not with our eyes but with our understanding and our hearts. Burroughs on weather as a phase in which nature appears human and changeable — an observation that requires slowing down enough to notice. These quotes are for people who have discovered that the most useful thing they can do is stop dividing their attention and give one thing what it actually requires.
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is - infinite