Part of suffering is the useless urge to announce that you’re suffering.

有一部分痛苦来自表达痛苦的无望冲动。

There is no other way to say it: I’m suffering. Just to say “I suffer”

除了说“我痛苦”你没有其他的方式说出它；只要说出来你就会感觉好些。

helps.

我在哪里读到过“痛苦让我们的生活像首歌。”

I read somewhere, “we become lyrical when we suffer.”

幸福就是为了正确的原因而痛苦。

Happiness is suffering for the right reasons.

一流的痛苦是二流的幸福。

First-order suffering is second-order happiness.

你必须要为美丽而痛苦？因为你必须痛苦。

You have to suffer for beauty? Because you have to suffer.

我们因为经历高品质的痛苦而骄傲。

We pride ourselves on a high quality of suffering.

屠格涅夫生于1818年的奥廖尔省，童年时因为一个暴戾的母亲而痛苦。

Turgenev was born in 1818 in the Province of Orel, and suffered

during his childhood from a tyrannical mother.

在过去痛苦看起来不是那么荒谬。

In the past their suffering was less absurd.

问题在于，所有的事情都在变糟糕，就像纸之于塑料。我们仍然会死于痛苦。

The problem is, everything’s worse. Like, paper or plastic? We’re all

我看重独自思考的时刻，但觉得很难表示“这件事让我们不那么痛苦，所以我们不要去做它了。”

still going to die suffering.

这是不是文化让我们的感受保持不被需要和孤立的一种方式？

I value being alone with my thoughts, but it’s weird to say, “This

thing that makes us suffer less, we have to stop doing it.”

究竟什么是人在“快乐地”经历痛苦？

Isn’t it kind of the point of culture to assuage our feeling needless

至少富人在经历痛苦时比较舒适。

and alone?

这让生命显得更长久。总会有另一天让你痛苦。

How does one suffer “gladly,” exactly?

一个人之前的痛苦会带来巨大的舒适感。一种折磨人的奢华。天鹅绒衬垫。

At least the rich get to suffer in comfort.

痛苦就是幸福，在四十分钟孤独的踱步之后。关键点是，活着就是痛苦。

It makes the life feel longer. Live to suffer another day.

关于痛苦，没有人的感受是错误的。

One’s past suffering can be a great source of comfort. A torturous

luxury. Velvet upholstery.

Suffering is happiness, after forty minutes of desolate shuffling. The

point is, life is suffering.

About suffering, no one is ever wrong.