Henry Adams Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

  Henry Adams

  Women, Science, Isis

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.187, Penguin

• In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

  Henry Adams

  Mother, Children, Pain

  Henry Adams (1986). “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres”, p.72, Penguin

• What a vast fraternity it is,--that of 'Hearts that Ache.' For the last three months it has seemed to me as though all society were coming to me, to drop its mask for a moment and initiate me into the mystery. How we do suffer! And we go on laughing; for, as a practical joke at our expense, life is a success.

  Henry Adams

  Heart, Grieving, Laughing

  Henry Adams, Jacob Claver Levenson, Massachusetts Historical Society (1982). “The Letters of Henry Adams: 1886-1892”

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