Admitting Quote by Jane Austen

“In so speaking they saw further than the flesh. In their remorse and disgust it was not mere physical disillusionment that so crushed them.…

— Henri Barbusse

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or soon would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface is seemed every…

— George Saunders

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“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

“Every torment they had experienced was returned to them an intoxication. It seemed to them that the griefs , the sleeplessness, the tears, the…

— Victor Hugo

By choice they made themselves immune To pity and whatever moans in man Before the last sea and the hapless stars; Whatever mourns when…

— Anonymous

“All were in sorrow, or had been, or would be. It was the nature of things. Though on the surface it seemed every person…

— George Saunders

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.

— Betty Smith

It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

— Publilius Syrus

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

— Hermann Hesse

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

— Dante Alighieri

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

— Sophocles