The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

About Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

More quotations from Victor Hugo

When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.

—Victor Hugo

winter

He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.

—Victor Hugo

planning

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

—Victor Hugo

patience

I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

—Victor Hugo

fame

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

—Victor Hugo

exploration

More quotations tagged with “suffering”

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

—Unknown

suffering

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

—Thucydides

suffering

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

—Oscar Wilde

suffering

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

—Louise Bogan

suffering

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

—Joseph Addison

suffering

History

11 Jul 2015 Added