Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

It's not been a pleasant life.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

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.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.

Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.