Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

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

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.

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.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

Even a queen stubs her toe, but a wise woman watches the path.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

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

To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.

[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance; all evil comes from that.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

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.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

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.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

We have to acknowledge that adolescence is that time of transition where we begin to introduce to children that life isn't pretty, that there are difficult things, there are hard situations, it's not fair. Bad things happen to good people.