Contrary Quote by Simone Weil

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

“What a person has is of no consequence, whether much or little, when it comes to the deep satisfaction of the soul. Apart from…

— Kelly Minter

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

I have far more reasons to rather disbelieve that a man besides me suffers when he cries, yet I have far more sentiments, than…

— Kedar Joshi

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

— Francois Guizot

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

— W. Somerset Maugham

There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing...but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction...”

— Stephen King

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more…

— Joseph Addison

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life…

— Samuel Johnson

“There is another reason also why the soul has traveled safely in this obscurity; it has suffered: for the way of suffering is safer,…

— Saint John of the Cross

“A man who is sorry for his sins, is sorry either be cause sin is an evil done to God (malum Deo), or because…

— Joseph Pohle