Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

It's not been a pleasant life.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

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

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yelling for help.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

A splendid misery.

It takes a little blood to let the learning in.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

Life is hard. Not great. Kind of tragic.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

Those who are held Wise among men and who search the reasons of things, are those who bring the most sorrow on themselves.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.