Alain de Botton Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

  Alain de Botton

  Pain, Thinking, Suffering

  Alain De Botton (1997). “How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel”, Pantheon

• No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at the first attempt; and in the interval between initial failure and subsequent success, in the gap between who we wish one day to be and who we are at present, must come pain, anxiety, envy and humiliation. We suffer because we cannot spontaneously master the ingredients of fulfillment.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Pain, Envy

• Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

  Alain de Botton

  Suffering, Behaviour, Malice

• One of our major flaws, and causes of unhappiness, is that we find it hard to take note of appreciate and be grateful for what is always around us. We suffer because we lose sight of the value of what is before us and yearn, often unfairly, for the imagined attraction elsewhere.

  Alain de Botton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Sight

• Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

  Alain de Botton

  Love Is, Suffering, Disease

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

• One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

  Alain de Botton

  Art, Suffering, Important

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