Quotes · Skopia

28 quotes

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 5.5

The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

Ernest Hemingway

1929

★ 5.5

Song · Alternative rock · Rock music

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries.

R.E.M.

Everybody Hurts · 1992

★ 5.5

Letter

Sorrow comes in great waves—no one can know that better than you—but it rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us it leaves us on the spot, and we know that if it is strong we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. It wears us, uses us, but we wear it and use it in return; and it is blind, whereas we after a manner see.

Henry James

1883

★ 5.2

Philosophical literature

The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain.

Aristotle

The Nicomachean Ethics · 322 BC

★ 4.0

Film · Superhero (film) · Crime drama (film) · Superhero · Crime drama

I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you...stranger.

The Joker

The Dark Knight · 2008

★ 3.9

Play · Comedy (play)

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

William Shakespeare

The Tempest · 1616

★ 3.8

Novel · Dystopian fiction

But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

Margaret Atwood

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 3.8

Film · Comedy (film) · Fantasy (film) · Comedy · Fantasy

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

The Man in Black

The Princess Bride · 1987

★ 3.8

Poem · Narrative poem

It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd, To think their dolour others have endur'd.

William Shakespeare

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 3.7

Play · Tragedy (play)

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

William Shakespeare

Hamlet · 1616

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

The Noble Truth of Suffering is this: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering; sickness is suffering; death is suffering; sorror and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering; association with the unpleasant is suffering; dissociation from the pleasant is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering-in brief, the five aggregates of attachment are suffering.

Pali Tipitaka

100 BC

★ 3.6

Scripture · Religious literature

The Noble Truth of the Path leading to the Cessation of suffering is this: It is simply the Noble Eightfold Path, namely right view; right thought; right speech; right action; right livelihood; right effort; right mindfulness; right concentration.

Pali Tipitaka

100 BC

★ 3.6

Novel · Modernist literature

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 3.6

Suffering is only intolerable when nobody cares.

Cicely Saunders

1960

★ 3.6

Novel

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Josephine Hart

1991

★ 3.6

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

Life's hard. It's suppose to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing, you know?

Jesse

Before Sunset · 2004

★ 3.6

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 2.3

Novel · Coming of age story

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching… I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape.

Charles Dickens

Great Expectations · 1861

★ 2.2

Play · Tragedy (play)

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is.

William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus · 1594

★ 2.1

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