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Quotes About Suffering

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…
~ Jane Austen
To be disgraced in the eye of the world, to wear the appearance of infamy while her heart is all purity, her actions all innocence, and the misconduct of another the true source of her debasement, is one of those circumstances which peculiarly belong to the heroine's life, and her fortitude under it what particularly dignifies her character. Catherine had fortitude too; she suffered, but no mumur passed her lips.
~ Jane Austen
she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works by our best moralists, such collections of fine letters, such memoirs of characters of worth and suffering, as occurred to her at the moment as calculated to rouse and fortify the mind.
~ Jane Austen
It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
~ Jane Austen
I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.
~ Jane Austen
He considered his disposition as of the sort which must suffer heavily, uniting very strong feelings with quiet,serious, and retiring manners, and a decided taste for reading and sedentary pursuits.
~ Jane Austen
When one is in great pain, you know one cannot feel any blessing quite as it may deserve.
~ Jane Austen
There will be nothing singular in his case; and it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.
~ Jane Austen
If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
~ Jane Austen
Every thing was a friend, or bore her thoughts to a friend; and though there had been sometimes much of suffering to her- though her motives had been often misunderstood, her feelings disregarded, and her comprehension under-valued; though she had known the pains of tyranny, of ridicule, and neglect, yet almost every recurrence of either had led to something consolatory... and the whole was now so blended together, so harmonised by distance, that every former affliction had its charm.
~ Jane Austen
A man like him, in his situation! with a heart pierced, wounded, almost broken! Fanny Harville was a very superior creature, and his attachment to her was indeed attachment. A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman. He ought not; he does not.
~ Jane Austen
Las personas que como yo padecen de los nervios no tienen muchas ganas de hablar. ¡Nadie imagina mi sufrimiento! Pero siempre ha sido igual. Si uno no se queja, nadie le compadece.
~ Jane Austen
but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering—which was by no means the case
~ Jane Austen
Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.
~ Jane Austen
We do not suffer by accident. It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before
~ Jane Austen
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it…
~ Jane Austen
Anne, judging from her own temperament, would have deemed such a domestic hurricane a bad restorative of the nerves... but Mrs. Musgrove... concluded a short recapitulation of what she had suffered herself, by observing, with a happy glance round the room, that after all she had gone through, nothing was so likely to do her good as a little quiet cheerfulness at home.
~ Jane Austen
To be disgraced in the eye of the world, to wear the appearance of infamy while her heart is all purity, her actions all innocence, and the misconduct of another the true source of her debasement, is one of those circumstances which peculiarly belong to the heroine's life, and her fortitude under it what particularly dignifies her character. Catherine had fortitude too; she suffered, but no murmur passed her lips.
~ Jane Austen
if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness—if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.
~ Jane Austen
You men have none of you any hearts." 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.
~ Jane Austen
when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in
~ Jane Austen
Elinor, az ac? çekenler diledikleri kadar gururlu ve özgür olabilirler -hakarete kar?? koyabilir,kötülüÄŸü iade edebilirler- ama ben yapamam. Ben hissetmeliyim -sefil olmal?y?m- isteyen buyursun bunu nas?l ta??d???m?n keyfini ç?kars?n.
~ Jane Austen
and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages.
~ Jane Austen
it is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as
~ Jane Austen