Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

Now you see how you are, the wisdom mixed in with all the scars.

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain and suffering that I don't want to relive.

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

The life I've had, the difficulties, the hardships, the pain I've suffered since I was a child. It's a great privilege to have led a difficult life, and many people in my generation have had this privilege - I sometimes wonder if young people today aren't deprived of the dramas that shaped us.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

I'm by no means a perfect human being. I experience more than half of my life perpetuating darkness. That was because I was dropped in a place of darkness and expected to find a way out.