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.
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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not read more
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes read more
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
Oh, I have suffered
With those that I saw suffer!
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by read more
The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.
