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Quotes About Suffering

Pain makes you strong.
~ Holly Black
Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice chard through my heart.
~ Holly Black
Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice chard through my heart. -Jude Duarte
~ Holly Black
That I had suffered a loss. I thought about the word suffer and about the act or the state of suffering. I thought about enduring. About bearing the burden, about tolerating the pain, about learning to reconcile myself to this new, stark reality.
~ Unknown
It was so beautiful to know that I would go on forever, and so terrible to know that the part of me that fought through the pain of existence as Cadence Drake would never be only Cadence Drake beyond the few brief, flickering instants that my fragile fleshself survived. I would be absorbed into the greater whole and would cease to exist.
~ Holly Lisle
purification was the point of such pain.
~ Unknown
Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.
~ Homer
For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!
~ Homer
Tell me, muse, of the man of many resources who wandered far and wide after he sacked the holy citadel of Troy, and he saw the cities and learned the thoughts of many men, and on the sea he suffered in his heart many woes.
~ Homer
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
~ Homer
Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.
~ Homer
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.
~ Honore de Balzac
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
~ Honore de Balzac
Cruelty and fear shake hands together. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
~ Honore de Balzac
Suferin?a sfin?e?te totul.
~ Honore de Balzac
Mais que peuvent les malheureux? Ils aiment, voilà tout.
~ Honore de Balzac
Un homme sans passion e sans argent reste maitre de sa personne; mais un maleureux qui aime ne s'appartient plus et ne peut pas se tuer. L'amour nous donne une sorte de religion pour nous-meme, nous respectons en nous une autre vie, il devient alors le plus horibble des malheures avec une espérance, une espérance qui vous fait accepter des tortures
~ Honore de Balzac
Will anyone understand it outside Paris? That is open to doubt. The special features of this scene, full of local colour and observations, can only be appreciated in the area lying between the heights of Montmartre and the hills of Montrouge, in that illustrious valley of flaking plasterwork and gutters black with mud; a valley full of suffering that is real, and of joy that is often false, where life is so hectic that it takes something quite extraordinary to produce feelings that last.
~ Honore de Balzac
Toujours en opposition avec lui-même, trompant ses espérances par ses maux présents, et ses maux par un avenir qui ne lui appartient pas, l'homme imprime à tous ses actes le caractère de l'inconséquence et de la faiblesse. Ici-bas rien n'est complet que le malheur.
~ Honore de Balzac
El amor nos da una especia de religión para nosotros mismos, respetamos en nosotros otra vida; se hace entonces el más horrible de los males, el mal con una esperanza, una esperanza que nos hace aceptar los tormentos.
~ Honore de Balzac
En se résignant, le malheureux consomme son malheur.
~ Honore de Balzac
Ah! Lord God in heaven! how ill Thy world is ordered! Thou hast a Son, if what they tell us is true, and yet Thou leavest us to suffer so through our children.
~ Honore de Balzac
Femeia are comun cu îngerii faptul c? cei care sufer? îi apar?in.
~ Honore de Balzac
Mor?l?s ciešanas, kas p?rsp?j fizisk?s, allaž izraisa maz?ku ž?lumu, jo cilv?ka acij nav saskat?mas.
~ Honore de Balzac