One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
It is hard to imagine 10 years is not quite long enough to learn a lesson.
The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.
The learning process continues until the day you die.
Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.