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. —Victor Hugo More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones. —Thucydides More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. —Louise Bogan More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world. —Joseph Addison More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. —Henri-Frederic Amiel More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. —Edgar Allan Poe More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move. —Barbara Hall More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To perceive is to suffer. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: suffering Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: thoughts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. —Stanislaw J. Lec More about this quote Tags: thoughts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email