Quotes about Pain
When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.
— Victor Hugo
The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.
— Victor Hugo
It is painful to break the sad links to the past
— Victor Hugo
what can man do in hell, they sang; for song lingers where there is no longer any hope.
— Victor Hugo
Thoughtful minds make little use of this expression: the happy and the unhappy. In this world, clearly a vestibule of another, no one is happy.
— Victor Hugo
The utmost extremity of degradation is the obscene merriment to which it gives rise.
— Victor Hugo
I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture his children and his grandchildren, and hear them cry without being tortured himself.
— Victor Hugo
I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
— Milan Kundera
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.
— Milan Kundera
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weights so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, with someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
— Milan Kundera
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
— Milan Kundera
In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don't know what has become of you. My country is far away, and I don't know what is happening there.
— Milan Kundera