Character Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“...and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.”

— Hannah Arendt

“I've found when a person does not have the luxury to weigh morality one does not ponder, but does what must be done.”

— Charlie Courtland

“because in a way, everything a man does is part of the moral fabric of who he is, and what he is.”

— Anne Rice

“Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way”

— Barry Unsworth

“it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless.…

— Kim Fielding

“It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.”

— Samuel Butler

“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.”

— Eleanor Catton

“even though we do not want to suffer we create our own suffering by performing non-virtuous actions.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“…the particular consequence of his moral vanity was that when he did people an injury, he never forgave them. Never again.”

— Renata Adler

“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.”

— Jane Austen

“No one can relieve him of his suffering or suffer in his place. His unique opportunity lies in the way in which he bears…

— Viktor E. Frankl