To each his suff'rings; all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their paradise.
Thomas Gray
Quotes , Source: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College (st. 10)
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The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
Aesop
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To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
Woody Allen
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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Oscar Wilde
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I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was
none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample
them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my
garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Isaiah (ch. LXIII, v. 3)
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Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely
dread.
[Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae
metuant.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (III, 39)
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We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.''
C.S. Lewis
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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt
Thomas Merton
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
Confucius
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Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
Oscar Wilde
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And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus
whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the
pricks.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Acts (ch. IX, v. 5)
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Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.
Hesiod
Quotes , Source: Works and Days (l. 240)
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Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey?
And why does thy nose look so blue?
Thomas Holcroft
Quotes , Source: Gaffer Grey
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And taste
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Odyssesy (bk. XV, l. 434), (Pope's translation)
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They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Footsteps of Angels (st. 5)
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Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be
beneficial.
[Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Amorum (III, 11, 7)
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when
the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
[Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,
Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Heriodes (V, 7)
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If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
[Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Quotes , Source: Truculentus (IV, 2, 54)
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