“Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.”
Clive Barker book Galilee
Source: Galilee
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.”
Clive Barker book Galilee
Source: Galilee
“Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.”
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788) French natural historian
As quoted in New Cyclopædia of Illustrations (1870) by Elon Foster, p. 492
“Patience, a praise; forbearance is a treasure;
Sufferance, an angel is; a monster, rage.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) English translator
Book V, stanza 47
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Horace Walpole (1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
Letter 123 To Robert Jephson (13 July 1777)
“Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
Pearls of Wisdom
“The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
Source: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Context: Cruelty is one of the chief ingredients of love, and divided about equally between the sexes: cruelty of lust, ingratitude, callousness, maltreatment, domination. The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)