“Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.”
Cesare Pavese
“There's dignity in suffering Nobility in pain But failure is a salted wound That burns and burns again”
Margery Eldredge Howell
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Oscar Wilde
“True nobility is exempt from fear.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.”
Elijah Wood
“War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it.”
Benito Mussolini
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