suffering Quotes

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

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“Suffering . . . Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem.”

― John Green, Looking for Alaska

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“What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

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“You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“Well, quoth Friar John, as good sit still as rise up and fall; what cannot be cured must be endured.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“And how are the other weak ones to blame, because they could not endure what the strong have endured?”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

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“Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself.”

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

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