About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters:

how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; 

In Breughel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on. 

Musée des Beaux Arts, W.H. Auden