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Suffering Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
- The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an…
- There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us…
- We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our…
- A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a…
- We are ordinarily so indifferent to people that when we have invested one of them with the possibility of giving us joy, or suffering, it…
- To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it…
- We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
- Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
- People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being…
- Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
- ...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has…
- In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would…
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila