Was not Faria's fate the better, after all - to solve the problem of life at its source, even at the risk of horrible suffering?

This will be presaged, as we have seen, by horrible suffering, of course.

Matthew Shepard's horrible suffering and death cannot be dismissed simply as the fault of deranged, isolated individuals.

In October 1843 he wrote to her about "horrible suffering which has its seat nowhere; which cannot be described; which attacks both heart and brain".

The mal de mer - it is horrible suffering!

Oh, it is indeed a horrible suffering for me to despise, as I ought to do, her whom I have loved so devotedly.

And the most horrible sufferings have come directly from the drive for justice without the power of judgment among human beings.

This sorry track record has resulted in, among other things, the horrible suffering and premature deaths of thousands of men, women and children.

The infantryman died within the hour amid horrible sufferings, despite being bled white by the surgeons.

Those who are left will pay for their past sins with "horrible suffering," he has said.