Egoism Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under…

— John Brunner

“Suffering is a form of egoism. I speak only of myself. I am not talking about her, saying what she was, making an overwhelming…

— Roland Barthes

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning…

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

“She realized that her undiluted love had also given him the power to hurt her but she decided that spirit of the soul can…

— Madhu Vajpayee

“Most of the misery had been generated by her conventional aspect, and not by her innate sensations.”

— Thomas Hardy

“It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.”

— Louise Erdrich

“Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.”

— Rhidian Brook

“her heart swelled up with misery, until it felt too large for her bosom. It beat with odd little jerks; her hands were cold,…

— Margaret Mitchell

“A part of her was immune to pain, numbed by humiliating experiences and hatred while the part that had known finer emotions, powerless to…

— Neetha Joseph

“The unconscious fabric of human destiny had done with her, unraveling all her grievances and reweaving them as joyous circumstance.”

— Michelle Franklin

“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.”

— Bryant McGill

“Because suffering was a part of life, and without it you grew prideful and full of ego.”

— Shannon Mayer