W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Inspirational, Life, Character

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 17

• Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Men, Suffering, Want

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Suffering Of Others, Suffering, Resignation

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Past, Evil, Suffering

• Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Suffering, Tears, Gone

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “Of Human Bondage”, p.64, The Floating Press

• I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Selfish, Men, Suffering Of Others

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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