some device QUOTES

1 " Why do I make room in my mind for such filth and nonsense? Do I hope that if feeling disguises itself as thought I shall feel less? Aren't all these notes the senseless writhings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it? Who still thinks there is some device (if only he could find it) which will make pain not to be pain. It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on. "

― C.S. Lewis , A Grief Observed

2 " Is it not possible — I often wonder — that things we have felt with great intensity have an experience independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible,in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them? …Instead of remembering here a scene and there a sound, I shall fit a plug into the wall; and listen in to the past "

― Virginia Woolf , Moments of Being: A Collection of Autobiographical Writing

3 " Is it not possible — I often wonder — that things
we have felt with great intensity have an
experience independent of our minds; are in fact
still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible,
in time, that some device will be invented by which
we can tap them? … Instead of remembering here
a scene and there a sound, I shall fit a plug into the
wall; and listen in to the past "

― Virginia Woolf

4 " …everything may be done in a right way or a wrong; the right way is to do it as well as we can, as in God’s sight; the wrong is to do it in a self-seeking spirit, which either leads us to neglect it to follow out some device of our own before and after the doing. "

― Elizabeth Gaskell , Ruth