No one else’s suffering is ever as acute as your own,

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

— Hermann Hesse

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

— Evelyn Waugh

They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering…

— Charlotte Bronte

What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad health and…

— Christopher Shays

My dog is vicious to the uninvited guest, lavishly affectionate to the invited one, and so freakishly acute that he has mastered the English…

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

— Arthur Balfour

My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But…

— Ian Mcewan

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in…

— Ani DiFranco

I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. He's very original, very accurate and acute.

— Helen Vendler

“I have acute pancreatitis." "I thought it was just average looking.”

— Melissa Bank

The Australian wedge-tailed eagle has enormous eyes, both in absolute terms and compared with most other birds, and as a result has the greatest…

— Tim Birkhead

We have an opportunity to create a future where we are actually encouraging providers to keep people away from acute care, whenever possible.

— Kathleen Sebelius

Sometimes, I think the best kind of poem is one in which there is an acute balance between what is humorous and that which…

— N. Scott Momaday

The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this…

— Lili Taylor

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

— Ursula K. Le Guin