Shūsaku Endō, Silence Quotes
I did pray. I kept on Praying. But prayer did nothing to alleviate their suffering.
The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.
Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God …. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.
In order to pile weakness upon weakness he was trying to drag others along the path that he himself had walked.
