H. G. Wells Quotes

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be part of life's required curriculum, perhaps because Misery endows us with compassion and empathy.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

If you would not have affliction visit you twice, listen at once to what it teaches.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.