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Quotes about suffering
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. (Cleese John)
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. (Cleese John)
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. (Cleese John)
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. (Cleese John)
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. (Cleese John)
You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone. (Cleese John)
Suffering is part of the divine idea. (Cleese John)
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer (Cleese John)
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. (Cleese John)
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. (Cleese John)
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. (Cleese John)
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Cleese John)
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. (Cleese John)
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. (Cleese John)
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. (Cleese John)
It is the lot of man to suffer. (Cleese John)
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. (Cleese John)
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. (Cleese John)
We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other. (Cleese John)
Great artists suffer for the people. (Cleese John)
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. (Cleese John)
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. (Cleese John)
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing. (Cleese John)
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. (Cleese John)
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. (Cleese John)
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