I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

Is love so small a pain for a woman?

Human sympathy has its limits.

I like these streets... I always feel as though it's a performance being staged for me; as though the second I've passed they'll all stop leaping and laughing and, instead grow very sad, remembering how poor they are, and retreat with bowed heads into their houses. You often get that effect abroad

Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it

Similarly we are seldom sorry for those who need and crave our pity--we reserve this for those who, by other means, make us exercise the

He was tempted to lean over and kiss away her tears.

They made no love that day, but when he left her outside the sad door on the Zurichsee and she turned and looked at him he knew her problem was one they had together for good now.

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were content to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

Wann immer du an jemandem etwas auszusetzen hast, sagte er, vergiss nicht, dass nicht alle auf dieser Welt einen so leichten Start hatten wie du.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.