suffering

stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.” These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot describe to you how ...

I saw the manuscript in his hand, and I knew that when he read it he would realise how much I knew; so I said to him:-- “I wish I could comfort all who suffer from the heart. Will you let me be your friend, and will you come to me for comfort if you need it?

My occasional delirium prevented me from counting time. I was weeks recovering from that awful starvation adventure; and yet what was that to the hideous sufferings I now endured? After dreaming for some time, and thinking of this and other matters, I once mor...

Is seized and carried by force into a Portuguese ship. I began this desperate voyage on February 15, 1714–15, at nine o’clock in the morning.

I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet. How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed f...