It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things. Anne Rice
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
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Aeschylus
Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.
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Marty Rubin
Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?
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David Gianadda
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Anonymous
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
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Hans Christian Andersen
More Quotes By Anne Rice
I never lie, " I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.
Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.
It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windswept ocean beach. There was nothing but the soft roar of the waves.
The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.
