Quotes by Suffering Dostoevky's lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity - all this is difficult to admire. Vladimir Nabokov tastesufferingway Submit to me." So she said nothing, but looked doggedly and sadly at the shore, wrapped in its mantle of peace; as if the people there had fallen alseep, she thought; were free like smoke, were free to come and go like ghosts. They have no suffering there, she thought. Virginia Woolf sufferingghostpeople A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell. W. C. Fields linessufferingmen The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is. W. H. Auden sufferingherolaw It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly. W. H. Auden uglycriticismsuffering Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition. W. H. Auden sufferingwritinginteresting He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain. W. Edwards Deming qualitysufferingyears About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along. W. H. Auden sorrowsufferingwindow What though I cannot meet my bills? W. S. Gilbert pillsbillssuffering Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it. W. Somerset Maugham sufferingwantmen About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters. W. H. Auden masterssuffering The habit-forming pain, W. H. Auden paingriefsuffering As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. Walker Percy despairsufferingpeople Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted. W. Somerset Maugham sufferingevilpast We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. W. Somerset Maugham resignationsuffering-of-otherssuffering Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style. W. H. Auden stylesufferingthinking Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer. W. Somerset Maugham tearssufferinggone I am the man, I suffered, I was there. Walt Whitman he-mansufferingmen Let people who do not know what to do with themselves in this life, but fritter away their time reading magazines and watching television, hope for eternal life... The life I want is a life I could not endure in eternity. It is a life of love and intensity, suffering and creation, that makes life worthwhile and death welcome. There is no other life I should prefer. Neither should I like not to die. Walter Kaufmann readingsufferingpeople It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. Walter Kaufmann purposesufferingdoe«202203204205206207208209210211212»
