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“When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end.”

Thinking Ends Hard Life Is Amount Terrible Endure Unhappy Unhappiness

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“I think Nature, if she interests herself much about her children, must often feel that, like the miserable Frankenstein, with her experimenting among the elements of humanity, she has brought beings into existence who have no business here; who can do none of her work, and endure none of her favours; whose life is only suffering; and whose action is one long protest against the ill foresight which flung them into consciousness.”

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Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“We stay in the house so much because I am waiting for the telephone. I seem to be back in my teens, a period I thought I would never have to endure again: my life is spent hoping for things that only someone else can bring about.”

Seems Life Is House Waiting Periods Endure Teens Telephones

Book:Celestial Navigation

Source: Celestial Navigation

“you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance.”

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Author:Catherine the Great

“Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.”

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Book:With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

Source: With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey

“Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure as their life is ending?”

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Author:Marcia Angell

“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.”

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Book:The Setting Sun

Source: The Setting Sun

“God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.”

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Book:Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year

Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year

“We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say?”

Ifs World Life Kind Different Life Is Our Lives Sweet Diversity Musician Harmony Endure Contrary Loud Tone Flats Endurance Harsh

Book:Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings

Source: Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings