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Category: Pain and Tears

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1. "It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

William Somerset Maugham, "Moon and Sixpence"

Quotations about: Happiness

2. "It is not work that kills, but worry."

English proverb

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

3. "There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."

Saint Teresa of Avila (Teresa de Jesús)

Quotations about: God and Religion

4. "I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Quotations about: Love

5. "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

Clive Staples Lewis, "The Problem of Pain"

6. "Cities are the abyss of the human species."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Quotations about: Various

7. "Physical prowess is for cowards; a little pain builds character."

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8. "Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Nature and Animals

9. "He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

10. "God has commanded Time to console the unhappy."

Joseph Joubert

Quotations about: Time and Passing

11. "Beauty can pierce one like pain."

Thomas Mann

Quotations about: Beauty and Ugliness

12. "If you suffer, thank God! - it is a sure sign that you are alive."

Elbert Green Hubbard

13. "It's often not what we say that hurts, but what we don't say."

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Quotations about: Oration and Silence

14. "Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

15. "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

George Eliot, "Middlemarch"

Quotations about: Optimism and Hope

16. "The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."

Arthur Schopenhauer

Quotations about: Happiness

17. "God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

St. Augustine of Hippo

18. "If you are going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

19. "Pain is your friend; it lets you know that you're still alive."

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20. "If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."

Rabindranath Tagore

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