• Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.

    George Eliot: Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism,  a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.   Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being.
    "Adam Bede". Book by George Eliot, 1859.