Mary Ellen Chase Quotes

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

Being is the great explainer.

I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

Does it hurt very much to die? Well, sweetheart, yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

We have discovered the secret of life.

There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

I like to open people's eyes.

The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

My ignorance is widespread.