The Plain of Jars Quotes

“The war should stop,” Andrew declared to him, thinking he had
finally found a willing ear to sympathize with his dilemma. ‘There’s
so much suffering going on. It is madness. I ask you, as a holy man,
if there is a Supreme Being, why doesn’t he step in and end it?”
“Do the fish see the water?”
“The fish…see water?”
“Do the worms in the dung heap see the dung they borrow
through? Does humanity see the world? You, my son, are but a thin
thread, interwoven with many threads of all colors, but you cannot
see the tapestry of which you are a part. You are only one note in a
song that you cannot hear. Suffering, is the world, and the world is
the same as suffering.”
― N. Lombardi Jr., The Plain of Jars