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... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong... More
... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism,... More
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy.... More
...to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh... More
A lock-jaw that bends a man’s head back to his heels, hydrophobia, that makes him bark at his... More
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. More
A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless... More
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. More
After bitterness comes the sweet. More
All loss, all pain, is particular; the universe remains to the heart unhurt. More
And almost every one when age,
Disease, or sorrows strike him,
Inclines to think there is... More
As fire refines gold, so suffering refines virtue. More
At this very moment,... the most frightful horrors are taking place in every corner of the world.... More
Beatrice. But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me?
Benedick. Suffer... More
Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the... More
But I choose to think he is escaped from the possibility of falling into any future afflictions,... More
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a... More
Do you still persist in your integrity? Curse God, and die. More
Does Job fear God for nothing? Have you not put a fence around him and his house and all that he... More
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel. More
Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re... More
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. More
Earth’s a howling wilderness,
Truculent with fraud and force. More
Eternity is not ours by right; and, alone, unrequited sufferings here, form no title thereto. More
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and... More
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That... More
Father who endest all,
Pity our broken sleep;
For we lie down with tears
And waken... More
For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling... More
For my sighing comes like my bread, and my groanings are poured out like water. More
Given the existence ... of a personal God ... who ... loves us dearly ... it is established... More
God clothed himself in vile man’s flesh, that so
He might be weak enough to suffer woe. More
He admired the terrible recreative power of his memory. It was only with the weakening of this... More
He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of pain. More
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. More
Henceforth I’ll bear
Affliction till it do cry out itself
“Enough, enough,” and die. More
Him, the vindictive rod of angry justice
Sent, quick and howling, to the centre... More
How had I come to be here,
like them, and overhear
a cry of pain that could have
got... More
I could not know
Whether I suffered, or I did:
For all seemed guilt, remorse or... More
I count three days
since her beautiful lips
touched the fine wheat
her frail... More
I do oppose
My patience to his fury, and am armed
To suffer, with a quietness of... More
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through... More
I grieve that grief can teach me nothing, nor carry me one step into real nature. More
I like a look of Agony,
Because I know it’s true—
Men do not sham Convulsion,
Nor... More
I make a virtue of my suffering
From nearly everything that goes on round me.
In other... More
I thought I alone suffered,
but suffering is everywhere.
When I went on the... More
I thought it said in every tick:
I am so sick, so sick, so sick:
O death, come quick,... More
I was, being human, born alone;
I am, being woman, hard beset;
I live by squeezing from a... More
I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want... More
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where... More
I, who had heard of music in the spheres,
But not of speech in stars, began to muse:
But... More
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You... More
If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist’s office would be full of luminous ideas. More
In courtesy I’d have her chiefly learned;
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are... More
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we... More
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual,... More
Infirmity doth still neglect all office
Whereto our health is bound; we are not... More
Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of... More
It burns the thing
inside it. And that thing
screams. More
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that... More
It is better to rage against the preventable suffering/because it leads to the suggestion of... More
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help,... More
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains... More
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. More
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but... More
Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself, and sat among the ashes. More
Journey to Gethsemane, go and feel the tempter’s power;
Your Redeemer’s conflict see,... More
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. More
Know from this the world’s a snare,
How that greatness is but care,
How all pleasures... More
Lion, with enduring heart, suffer the unendurable
None of mankind that does wrong shall fail... More
Making it a valid law to learn by suffering. More
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by... More
Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at... More
Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. More
Men cry because things are not what they ought to be. More
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and... More
My spirit is broken, my days are extinct, the grave is ready for me. More
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh. More
No man, said Birkin, cuts another man’s throat unless he wants to cut it, and unless the other... More
No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. More
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. More
Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. More
Now you are a priest,
and she is dead,
you said,
“she was gay;
she suffered too... More
O that my vexation were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances! For then it would be... More
O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! More
O, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer! More
Oh! mock not the poniarded heart. The stabbed man knows the steel; prate not to him that it is... More
Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know erelong,
Know how sublime a thing... More
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such... More
Only after one has tasted the bitterest of bitterness can one be a superior person. More
Only one who has tasted bitterness can know sweetness. More
Only those who have endured the greatest suffering can become the greatest people. More
Only those who have tasted the dregs of bitterness will stand out among others. More
Out of the deep depths of misfortune comes bliss. More
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can. More
People invent gods to explain their suffering. More
People take advantage of people, but Heaven does not. More
People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror... More
Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer.... Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he... More
Rivers of wings surround us and vast tribulation. More
Shall we receive the good at the hand of God, and not receive the bad? More

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