Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• To marry unequally is to suffer equally.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Marriage, Suffering

• To be misunderstood even by those whom one loves is the cross and bitterness of life. It is the secret of that sad and melancholy smile on the lips of great men which so few understand; it is the cruelest trial reserved for self-devotion; it is what must have oftenest wrung the heart of the Son of man; and if God could suffer, it would be the wound we should be forever inflicting upon Him. He also - He above all - is the great misunderstood, the least comprehended.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heart, Son, Love Is

  Entry for May 27, 1849, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

• The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Health, Men, Medical Knowledge

  Journal Intime 22 August (1873)

• Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sacrifice, Glowing, Suffering

• Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Heaven, Suffering, Earth

• The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Love, Grief, Men

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