Change Quote by Charles Dickens

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

— D. H. Lawrence

“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

“Often in the past he had wondered what it would be like to be subjected (soma-less and with nothing but his own inward resources…

— Aldous Huxley

“His were the eyes of one who had seen too much suffering to take suffering too seriously.”

— Rick Yancey

“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

“There was a certain graceful ease and freedom about all he said and did, that gave a sense of repose and expansion to the…

— Anne Brontë

“He perceived with dismay that the sort of frightful calm which the injustice of his misfortune had conferred upon him was giving way within…

— Victor Hugo

“He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was more than…

— Jacqueline Carey

“all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged,…

— George Saunders

“What he had was a sense that few things mattered much. That few people are to be feared. And so he now faced all…

— Dave Eggers

“He had great ideas for change but was too busy with other things to pursue them. He postulated. He pontificated. He spoke glowingly of…

— Abiodun Fijabi

“He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo