A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

—Louise Bogan

About Louise Bogan

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Louise Bogan (11 August 1897 – 4 February 1970) was an American poet. She was appointed the fourth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1945, a role today known as U.S. Poet Laureate, becoming the first woman to hold this title. Throughout her life she wrote poetry,...

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I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

—Louise Bogan

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So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

—Joseph Addison

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

—Henri-Frederic Amiel

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

—Helen Keller

I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.

—Helen Keller

I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.

—G. K. Chesterton

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11 Jul 2015 Added