Quotes About Suffering

Some of you, we all know, are poor, find it hard to live, are sometimes, as it were, gasping for breath.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.

Yesterday I was influenced with the rottenness of human relations. They appeared full of death and decay, and offended the nostrils.

It is a mistake to suppose that, in a country where the usual evidences of civilization exist, the condition of a very large body of the inhabitants may not be as degraded as that of savages. I

The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.

What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

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La mayoría de los hombres lleva vidas de tranquila desesperación. Lo que se llama resignación es desesperación confirmada.

Vous m'avez tout donné, le bonheur et la souffrance. Vous avez été mêlée à toutes mes choses de cet été, comme de la pluie mêlée aux branches d'un arbre. Vous avez désenchanté pour moi la solitude. A peine si j'y peux croire encore.

Nessuno invero ha mai visto la bellezza in tutto il suo splendore quando non l'abbia vista nel dolore.

But the tragedy is that, on the contrary, we are already suffering the long-run consequences of the policies of the remote or recent past. Today is already the tomorrow which the bad economist yesterday urged us to ignore

To live only to suffer—only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlarged—it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?

You were to suffer your fate. That was not necessarily to know it.

It was the tragic part of happiness; one's right was always made of the wrong of some one else.

I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not enviable. It has never been seen by a young, happy, innocent person like you. You must have suffered first, have suffered greatly, have gained some miserable knowledge. In that way your eyes are opened to it.

What had the man had, to make him by the loss of it so bleed and yet live? Something—and this reached him with a pang—that he, John Marcher, hadn't; the proof of which was precisely John Marcher's arid end.  No passion had ever touched him, for this was what passion meant; he had survived and maundered and pined, but where had been his deep ravage?... The escape would have been to love her; then, then he would have lived. 

She was too young, too impatient to live, too unacquainted with pain.

When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in.

How in the world--when what is such knowledge but suffering?

The peril for you is that you live too much in the world of your own dreams. You're not enough in contact with reality — with the toiling, striving, suffering, I may even say sinning, world that surrounds you. You're too fastidious; you've too many graceful illusions.

There came suddenly an hour after which, as I look back, the business seems to me to have been all pure suffering.

I can't escape unhappiness.

se guardo indietro, mi pare che tutto sia stato pura sofferenza.