7 Samuel Johnson Quotes on Suffering

Samuel Johnson quotes on suffering

1. Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest

29. He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

38. 'Enlarge my life with multitude of days!' In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

48. Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does it appear that the happiest lot of terrestrial existence can set us above the want of this general blessing; or that life, when the gifts of nature and of fortune are accumulated upon it, would not still be wretched, were it not elevated and delighted by the expectation of some new possession, of some enjoyment yet behind, by which the wish shall at last be satisfied, and the heart filled up to its utmost extent.

58. The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

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80. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.

83. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.