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Suffering Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering…
- If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
- There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.
- In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the…
- As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we…
- The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone.…
- If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly.
- It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
- Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
- Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
- The ox suffers, the cart complains.
- Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.
- You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.
- In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities…
- These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other,…
- You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals…
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- 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