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Edith Hamilton Quotes about Suffering

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Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

Edith Hamilton
Pain, Remembrance, Suffering
EDITH HAMILTON (1958). “THE GREEK WAY”

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

Edith Hamilton
Suffering, Events, Intense
Edith Hamilton (2010). “The Greek Way”, p.172, W. W. Norton & Company

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

Edith Hamilton
Soul, Suffering, Tragedy
Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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