I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.

About Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...

More quotations from Oscar Wilde

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

I can resist anything but temptation.

The needs of society determine its ethics.

I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

More quotations tagged with “suffering”

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

—Louise Bogan

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

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