 What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) |
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Tag Archives: suffering
Banana Yoshimoto – I won’t let my spirit be destroyed
 As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
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Khalil Gibran – The strongest souls emerge from suffering
 Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
– Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) |
Thomas Paine – Society versus government
 Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.
– Thomas Paine (1737-1809) |
Arthur Schopenhauer – What a man can do and suffer is unknown
 What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.
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Jane Austen – One does not love a place less
 One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
– Jane Austen (1775-1817) |
Helen Keller – Trial and suffering and character
 Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
– Helen Keller (1880-1968) |
Fyodor Dostoevsky – Pain and suffering for a large intelligence
| Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) |
Douglas MacArthur – Duty, Honor, Country.
 The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.
This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. – Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) |
Woody Allen – Life is full of misery
 Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.
– Woody Allen (1935-) |
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – The most beautiful people we have known
| The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. |
Bertrand Russell – Three passions, simple but overwhelming
 Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
– Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
