Suffering · Skopia

Quotes

28

Novel · Modernist literature

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 5.5

Novel · War novel

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.

Everybody Hurts · 1992

★ 5.5

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.

1883

★ 5.2

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Books

6

The Wisdom Books

Author unknown

400 BC★ 7.6

Man's Search for Meaning

1946★ 6.9

The Book of Psalms

500 BC★ 6.7

Revelations of Divine Love

Julian of Norwich

1395★ 6.5

Gravity and Grace

1943★ 6.5

Secondhand Time

Svetlana Alexievich

2013★ 5.5

Art

4

Guernica

1937★ 9.9

The Two Fridas

1939★ 7.7

The Weeping Woman

1937★ 7.5

The Night

1919★ 7.2

Movies

2

Au Hasard Balthazar

1966★ 7.8

A Serious Man

2009★ 7.3