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"Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it."
"If thou shouldst say, 'It is enough, I have reached perfection,' all is lost. For it is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection."
"-->* They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains."
"You have your brush, you have your colours, you paint paradise, then, in you go."
"I'm a disciplinarian, I don't condone gossip and I don't suffer fools easily."
"At present they [philosophers] seem to be in a very lamentable condition, and such as the poets have given us but a faint notion of in their descriptions of the punishment of Sisyphus and Tantalus. Fo…"
"When Mahmud reached Ghazni, the booty was valued at 2,000,000 Dinars, 53,000 slaves, and 350 elephants.'"
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
"All right, I can see the broken eggs. Now where's this omelette of yours?"
"to be able to draw in the midst of boredom and misery.."
"Copernicus' picture did more than picture the solar system correctly: it painted a new world picture."
"Whether the color of your skin is black, white, yellow, brown or purple -- the extent of this tragedy is so incredibly devastating that we had to do something."
"5068. 'Tis better to suffer Wrong, than to do it."
"I gave her an unmistakable "I want to fuck you" look, she shot me back a quick "My spine hurts" face, and I was smitten."
"To these crocodile tears they will add sobs, fiery sighs, and sorrowful countenance."
"No enemy bomber can reach the Ruhr. If one reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Göring. You may call me Meyer."
"3395. Men hate those they have hurt."
"Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife."
"Visitors to the expo were amused and fascinated by portrait painter Pricasso and his unique brush."
"To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say."
Authors on suffering gaining momentum today
Anton Chekhov
Oscar Wilde
Emil Cioran
Thomas Fuller (writer)
Aeschylus
Mikhail Gorbachev
Pricasso
Fernando Pessoa
John Green
Paulo Coelho
George Herbert
Steve Maraboli