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 –"musée des beaux arts," w. h. auden what observation about suffering does this passage most clearly suggest? ordinary life continues for people even when others are suffering. it is easy to feel sympathy when others are suffering. the suffering of one person is always meaningful to others. people are cruel and do not care about the suffering of others.    never mind i found the answer the answer is a. or the first answer ! i know this because i got it !