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  • Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

    Oscar Wilde (2008). “De Profundis: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

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    Oscar Wilde (1947). “The Happy Prince”, p.16, New Line Publishing
  • Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

    Oscar Wilde (1962). “The letters of Oscar Wilde”
  • For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1044, Wordsworth Editions
  • Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

  • I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

    Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”
  • It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.216, Wordsworth Editions
  • Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

    Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897
  • Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

    Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (1999). “The Soul of Man, and Prison Writings”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS
  • Any place you love is the world to you”, explained the pensive Catherine Wheel, who had been attached to an old deal box in early life, and prided herself on her broken heart; “but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once- But it is no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past.

  • I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.365, GENERAL PRESS
  • Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions
  • Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

    Oscar Wilde (2008). “The Happy Prince and Other Tales: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.12, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

    Oscar Wilde (1961). “DE PROFUNDIS”, p.7, VICTORIA INSTITUTIONS
  • He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood.

    Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.80, Xist Publishing
  • Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

    Oscar Wilde (1961). “Works: Edited with an Introduction”
  • Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

    Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.46, Diversion Books
  • There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

    Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.311, Simon and Schuster
  • Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

    Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.731, GENERAL PRESS
  • The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

    Oscar Wilde (2018). “Oscar Wilde Collection”, p.11, Youcanprint
  • Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul.

    Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1079, Wordsworth Editions
  • To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

    Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.22, Courier Corporation
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