“although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
- Source
- Optimism: An Essay
- Date
- 1903
Meaning of “although the world is full of suffering, it…”
The sentence holds suffering and human overcoming together, giving Keller’s optimism a basis in endurance rather than pretending suffering is absent.
Where does it come from?
Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. The surrounding passage explicitly says her optimism does not rest on the absence of evil.