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“He had lost the capacity of personal suffering, or he thought he had, and could only be hurt truly by what happened to others.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.”

— John le Carré

“Who can depart from his pain, and his aloneness without regret??”

— Kahlil Gibran

“I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the…

— Osamu Dazai

“There’s no need to suffer. Which I’d argue is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the human predicament, but okay.”

— John Green

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“that the endurance of suffering alone, without desire, was not sufficient to punish a fault.”

— Catherine of Siena

“She indulged in silent feelings of satisfaction, pleased with the idea of him suffering. This might even be a bit fun.”

— Emily Greenwood

“An awareness had come over him that he wasn’t going to die. Loneliness in itself could not destroy him. Neglect was insufficient. And so…

— Anne Rice

“There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear…

— Haruki Murakami

“He had no cause for self-reproach on the score of neglect, or want of thought, for he had been devoted to her service; and…

— Charles Dickens