suffering Quotes

“The things we love destroy us every time”

― George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.”

― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

topic:change suffering teaching

“Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.”

― Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

topic:suffering independence

“To become the spectator of one's own life . . . is to escape the suffering of life.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:life pain suffering

“suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

topic:suffering consciousness

“They suffer, of course ... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

topic:life reality pain pleasure suffering

“It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.”

― H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau

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“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

topic:suffering waiting forgetting

“it's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.”

― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

topic:pain change suffering

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