The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
Interpretation
Understanding heartbreak connects us to our shared human experience.
This quote emphasizes that experiencing heartbreak is a painful yet universal aspect of being human. Acknowledging this shared suffering can provide comfort, as it reminds us that we are not alone in our emotional struggles, highlighting the depth of our humanity.
In practice
In a speech on mental health, this quote could be used to highlight the significance of discussing emotional pain.
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.
For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.
In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose that's prospectively boring to strangers.
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.
When I got my first TV set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships with other people.
You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belong. . . . [W]e have to follow Christ along the concrete path of our daily lives so that he can transform us.
Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.
The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.
I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave
A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.
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