Dependent Quote by Simone Weil

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our…

— Aeschylus

“He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our…

— William Kent Krueger

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

— Epicurus

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons…

— Suzy Kassem

“Forgetting what it’s like to suffer can be a good thing, since suffering can make people too cutthroat for society’s good. But suffering also…

— Ben Ryder Howe

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it.…

— Sri Chinmoy

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost…

— Anonymous

“Many individuals are so constituted that their only thought is to obtain pleasure and shun responsibility. They would like, butterfly-like, to wing forever in…

— Theodore Dreiser

Man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers; since he is anxious to get at the cause of his…

— Luigi Pirandello

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man…

— Lydia M. Child

“There are millions of people who believe themselves “doomed” to poverty and failure, because of some strange force over which they believe they have…

— Napoleon Hill