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For there are deeds
Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quotes , Source: The Cenci (act III, sc. 1)
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Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and that must be
Our chastisement or recompense.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quotes , Source: Julian and Maddalo (l. 494)
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Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most,
That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?
Sarah Williams ("Saidie")
Quotes , Source: Is it so, O Christ in Heaven? (st. 3)
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Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
Heinrich Suso
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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.
Albert Camus
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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
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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Robert Lynd
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Suicide is a permanent solution
to a temporary problem
(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).
Unknown
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Suicide is a permanent solution
to a temporary problem
(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).
Unknown
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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
H. L. Mencken
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle
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