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Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

— Georges Duhamel

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.

— John O'Donohue

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

— Rob Bell

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

— Aristotle

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

— Anthony Daniels

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

— Willie Nelson

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

— Philip Yancey

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

— Emma Thompson

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

— John Tavener

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

— Michael Leunig

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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