"True knowledge comes only through suffering...." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.”

“There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.”

“But love me for love's sake, that evermoreThou may'st love on, through love's eternity.”

“There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?”

“It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.”

“We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.”

“Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.”

“Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?”

“If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.”