Andre Maurois Quotes

I have been through so much.

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

We learn from the things we suffer.

All my brothers, my brothers-in-law, they're always telling me what a good-hearted guy I am. You don't get to be good-hearted by accident. You get kicked around long enough, you get to be a real professor of pain.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

Suffering brings experience.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.