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Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord. -
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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. -
Alexis Carrel
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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. -
Sigmund Freud
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. -
John Donne
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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe -- -
Emily Dickinson
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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. -
Edward Dahlberg
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Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness. -
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. -
John Ciardi
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering. -
Aeschylus
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. -
Thomas Carlyle
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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 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. -
Francis H Bradley
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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. -
George Gurdjieff
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It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71] -
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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. -
Antonin Artaud
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I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. -
Richard Armour
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