Learn Through Quotations

“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man's torments.”

“If fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your tooth. ”

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

“When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.”

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“Man that is born of women is of few days, and full of trouble. ”

“You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.”

“To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.”

“With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood.”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits.”

“All sorrows are less with bread.”

“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”

“Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.”

“The torment that so many young women know, bound hand and foot by love and motherhood, without having forgotten their former dreams.”

“The good man suffers but to gain, And every virtue springs from pain; As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; But crush'd or trodden to the ground, Diffuse their balmy sweets around.”

“It is natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.”

“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state to another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.”

“When there is hell to pay, it is usually cheaper to pay it than to finance an endless purgatory.”

“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.”

“One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness.”

“Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.”

“Life is an incurable disease.”