Beauty Quote by Hermann Hesse

“If there's anything I've learned in my three centuries, it's that I would rather feel pain, sorrow, and misery than go through life feeling…

— Brittany Comeaux

“All the world is bitter as a tear”

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day when all…

— Cintra Wilson

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“But, despite everything, it was almost a pleasure to suffer those torments. I had crawled through life blindly and dully for so long, my…

— Herman Hesse

“In the worldly life, what is misery? It is the pain created from wrong suspicions.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The truth was, sooner or later life broke everyone. We were all broken pieces. The trick was to gather up our remaining fragments and…

— Kathleen Long

“There passes a time of happiness in your life, which I will not describe to you. It is unimportant. Perhaps you think it wrong…

— N.K. Jemisin

“This was the history of the world. Recovery and collapse, despair and relief. The dialectic of clean and dirty. Every time is worse than…

— Jerry Stahl

“We all struggle to find meaning in a sometimes painful world.”

— Scott Jurek

“What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the…

— Jean-Luc Nancy