Friday, November 25, 2016

Tolstoy's Ivan Ilyich looks at life through eye of suffering

Below is a quote from Leo Tolstoy's 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich'.

The words are spoken by Ilyich as he lies ill in bed.

Life is a series of increasing sufferings, speeds swifter and swifter to the end, and the end - the most terrible suffering.....yet if only I could understand what it is all for. Even that's impossible.
at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Featured Post

An inside view of the evil of the death penalty

This from the Guardian. Some weeks ago Pope Leo spoke out against the death penalty when he said that if people say they are opposed to abor...