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Quotes About Suffering

Et tout cela, mon Dieu! parce que mon cÅ"ur, que je croyais mort, n'était qu'engourdi; parce qu'il s'est réveillé, parce qu'il a battu, parce que j'ai cédé à la douleur de ce battement soulevé du fond de ma poitrine par la voix d'une femme!
~ Alexandre Dumas
Ce sont les illusions qui rendent les douleurs amères et inguérissables.
~ Alexandre Dumas
On a quelquefois assez souffert pour avoir le droit de ne jamais dire : je suis trop heureux.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Lors de la retraite des Napolitains, sa sÅ"ur a été violée par les soldats, qui lui ont ensuite coupé la tête et ont laissé dans la rue le corps nu et la tête coupée. Le corps et la tête ont été trouvés et pieusement recueillis par les carabiniers génois.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Voi iubi atât cât ai fost tu în stare s? iubeÈ™ti, zise el; voi suferi atât cât ai suferit tu; aceasta va fi o isp??ire în ochii t?i. Haide, domniÈ™oar?, s? l?s?m la o parte toate aceste micimi de prisos; s? fim mari ca îns??i durerea noastr?, s? fim tari ca îns??i dragostea noastr?.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Porque la esperanza, por más pequeña que sea la dosis, es un bálsamo que alivia los sufrimientos del corazón.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Aramis: Ieri ho provato a fare penitenza con quella frusta che vedete appesa al muro e il dolore mi ha impedito di continuare questo pio esercizio D'Artagnan: Ma caro amico, dove si è mai sentito dire che una ferita di arma da fuoco si guarisce a forza di frustate? Siete scusabile solo perché la malattia vi indeboliva il cervello
~ Alexandre Dumas
Conozco el precio del oro pero también el precio de la sangre; y en este momento la sangre es para nosotros más cara que el oro.
~ Alexandre Dumas
cuanto que los orientales no se limitan como Mitrídates, a hacer de los venenos una coraza. Hacen también de él un puñal. En sus manos la ciencia no es sólo una arma defensiva, sino a veces ofensiva. La una les sirve contra sus sufrimientos, la otra contra sus enemigos.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Woman was created for our destruction, and it is from her we inherit all our miseries.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Woman was created for our ruin, and it is from her that all our miseries come.
~ Alexandre Dumas
César avait appris de l'existence à souffrir la vie et des romans à s'en échapper
~ Alexandre Jardin
Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable once the idea of escape from them is suggested.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Il n'y a rien de si difficile à distinguer que les nuances qui séparent un malheur immérité d'une infortune que le vice a produite. Combien de misères sont à la fois le résultat de ces deux causes!
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
the Negro and the Indian. These two unhappy races have nothing in common; neither birth, nor features, nor language, nor habits. Their only resemblance lies in their misfortunes. Both of them occupy an inferior rank in the country they inhabit; both suffer from tyranny; and if their wrongs are not the same, they originate, at any rate, with the same authors.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Christ Almighty! To see yourself... face to face.,. The clothes were on fire. Did you see that? What in God's name was it?' 'It was Gully Foyle,' Robin said, 'burning in hell.
~ Alfred Bester
Let me die, for God's sake!' 'What's the matter? Does it hurt? I died for six months, and I didn't whine.
~ Alfred Bester
Being human means losing everything we love best in the world, she murmured as she released me. But would you ask to be anything else?
~ Alice Hoffman
I'm fated to lose everyone I ever love," April said. "I already know that." "Of course you are," Jet responded in her calm, measured tone. "That's what it means to be alive.
~ Alice Hoffman
We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
~ Alice Hoffman
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.
~ Alice Hoffman
You couldn't see love, or touch it, or taste it, yet it could destroy you and leave you in the dark, chasing after your own destiny.
~ Alice Hoffman
My grandmother was overwhelmed by what was happening to us. She ahd moved back into the past because the here and the now was too terrible.
~ Alice Hoffman
If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and amgels can't love the way men and women do.
~ Alice Hoffman