William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Kindness, Suffering, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1862). “The adventures of Philip on his way through the world”, p.158

• What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Selfish, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.155

• Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Disappointment, Grief, Believe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2988, Delphi Classics

• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Envy, Laughing, Stupidity

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