Affliction Quote by Virgil Download Open image “Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction” — Virgil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affliction Pity Suffering Sympathy
Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing. — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. — John Galt Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
That is the challenge Companion. To take what has happened to you and learn from it. Nothing is quite so destructive as pity, especially… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey -… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.” — Virgil Copy Share Image
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. — Virgil Copy Share Image
“..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...” — Virgil Copy Share Image
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day” — Virgil Copy Share Image
I don't feel insecure about any of this work anymore. Maybe I don't have what I had when I was younger. I'm not really… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider… — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
WHANGDEPOOTENAWAH, n. In the Ojibwa tongue, disaster; an unexpected affliction that strikes hard. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
New materials are one of the great afflictions of contemporary art. Some artists confuse new materials with new ideas. — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more. — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
