Quotes About Suffering

LES MISÉRABLES VOLUME

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh ! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault ; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that.

He saw nothing of all this. People who are crushed do not look behind them. They know but too well the evil fate which follows them.

In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack

Les galères ! Ah ! oui, plutôt mille fois la mort, plutôt l'échafaud que le bagne, plutôt le néant que l'enfer ; plutôt livrer mon cou au couteau de Guillotin qu'au carcan de la chiourme ! Les galères, juste ciel !

Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien étrange, Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-même arriva, Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va.

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!

You always have everything better than the rest, even pain.

She had already suffered so much that she reflected with the lugubrious air of an old woman.

There his wife died of a malady of the chest, from which she had long suffered. He had no children.

Le pavé lui était moins dur que le cÅ"ur de sa mère.

À de certains moments, Jean Valjean souffrait tant qu'il devenait puéril. C'est le propre de la douleur de faire reparaître le côté enfant de l'homme.

BOOK SECOND—THE FALL

La suprema miseria porge occasione alle oscenità.

Dichoso, aún en medio del dolor, aquél que a Dios ha dado un alma digna del amor y de la desgracia! El que no ha visto las cosas de este mundo y el corazón de los hombres a esta doble luz, no ha visto nada verdadero, ni sabe nada. El alma que ama y padece se encuentra en un estado sublime.

These two beings who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching an affection, and who had lived so long for each other now suffered side by side, each on the other's account; without acknowledging it to each other, without anger towards each other, and with a smile.

There is one thing sadder than having no money to buy bread; that is having nothing with which to buy medicine.

La sofferenza sociale incomincia a qualunque età.

Du reste qui dit lumière ne dit pas nécessairement joie. On souffre dans la lumière; l'excès brûle. La flamme est ennemie de l'aile. Brûler sans cesser de voler, c'est là le prodige du génie.

Alas! sir, said Gringoire, I would that I could lend you some, but, my breeches are worn to holes, and 'tis not crowns which have done it.

La guerre : c'est l'humanité contre l'humanité malgré l'humanité.

Che cos'è, in fondo, questa storia di Fantine? È la società che compera una schiava. Da chi? Dalla miseria. Dalla fame, dal freddo, dall'isolamento, dall'abbandono, dallo squallore. Doloroso mercato! Un'anima per un pezzo di pane: la miseria offre, la società accetta.

In times of revolution misery is both cause and effect. The blow which it deals rebounds upon it.

In October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread.