Quote by Wendell Berry Download Open image ““What can't be helped must be endured," Mat Feltner said. And he was a man who knew.”” — Wendell Berry ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.” — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
“But trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“He was the type of person who believed he alone could do the job adequately and afterward complained that no one had helped.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“People who have suffered understand pain and are often the best at helping others.” — Nadia Fezzani Copy Share Image
“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.” — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“We listened to the man because he had something to tell us, and us alone. Not how to play baseball, though he did that… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Kindness was too painful. It had been a long time since he had had to endure it.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share
“The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.” — Charlie Jane Anders Copy Share Image
“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.” — Abraham Lincoln Artman Himmelwright Copy Share Image
“He was ragged around the edges, a walking open wound with psych issues galore. But he still had a beating heart. Thoughts, feelings, fears.… — Tonya Burrows Copy Share Image
During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“I knew a man who, in the age of chain-saws, went right on cutting his wood with a handsaw and an axe. He was… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The concept of country, homeland, dwelling place becomes simplified as "the environment" -- that is, what surrounds us, we have already made a profound… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
A community is the mental and spiritual condition of knowing that the place is shared, and that the people who share the place define… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“That we can prescribe the terms of our own success, that we can live outside or in ignorance of the Great Economy are the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“The mind that comes to rest is tended In ways that it cannot intend: Is borne, preserved, and comprehended By what it cannot comprehend.… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The soil is the great connector of our lives, the source and destination of all. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
