It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

W. Somerset Maugham
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  2. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  3. The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. - Bill Hicks

  4. Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. - Dodie Smith

  5. It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. - Sigmund Freud

More Quotes By W. Somerset Maugham
  1. The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

  2. How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

  3. As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

  4. He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

  5. If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

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