suffering Quotes

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”

― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“'Does it hurt very much to die? ' Well, sweetheart, I tell her, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

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“Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

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“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

topic:wisdom stupidity suffering

“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot?”

― Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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“if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

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“Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death.”

― Albert Camus, The Fall

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