Edith Hamilton - Suffer Quotes

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Pain is the most individualizing thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization comes only when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself. Only individuals can suffer.

Edith Hamilton

It is by our power to suffer, above all, that we are of more value than the sparrows.

Edith Hamilton

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly — that and only that, is tragedy.

Edith Hamilton