Honore de Balzac Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Suffering, Pleasure

• Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Pain, Men, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “A Woman of Thirty: Works of Balzac”, p.15, 谷月社

• Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

  Honore de Balzac

  Humility, Anti Bullying, Suffering

  Honore de Balzac, Pierre F. Limouzy (1999). “CliffsNotes on Balzac's Pere Goriot”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Passion, Europe

• Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Suffering, Rivals

• Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Suffering, Weakness

• A lui la foi, a' elle le doute, a' elle le fardeau le plus lourd: la femme ne souffre-t-elle pas toujours pour deux? For him, faith; for her, doubt and for her theheavier load: does not the woman always suffer for both?

  Honore de Balzac

  Doubt, Suffering, Doe

  1831 La Recherche de l'absolu.

• Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Angel, Suffering

• To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Suffering, Devotion, Feels

• Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Mind, Suffering

• Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspire, Suffering, Desire

• A penniless man who has no ties to bind him is master of himself at any rate, but a luckless wretch who is in love no longer belongs to himself, and may not take his own life. Love makes us almost sacred in our own eyes; it is the life of another that we revere within us; then and so begins for us the cruelest trouble of all.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Eye, Men

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.134, The Floating Press

• With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

  Honore de Balzac

  Punishment, Expectations, Soul

• Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Passion, Past

• To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

  Honore de Balzac

  Women, Two, Doubt

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