The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.

Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.

To each his suff'rings; all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
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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.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have read more

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.

Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!

Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!

And taste
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

And taste
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,
For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.