Anticipation Quote by Honore de Balzac

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

— Albert Camus

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

— Edith Hamilton

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

— Dean Koontz

“Suffering was not a punishment from beyond or a malevolent infestation of the soul. Like the earth turning on its axis or energy passing…

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

— Jane Roberts

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

— William Wordsworth

Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is…

— Thomas Moore

“Suffering has its place in the scheme of things. It serves a purpose even though the sufferer may be entirely free from the taint…

— Joseph F. Merrill

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away…

— Paulo Coelho

May new sufferings torment your soul.

— Soren Kierkegaard