Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity
“One suffers work, even if one enjoys doing it.”
P 34
Women As Lovers (1994)
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Cesare Pavese (1908–1950) Italian poet, novelist, literary critic, and translator
This Business of Living (1935-1950)
“To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more”
Friedrich Nietzsche book On the Genealogy of Morality
Essay 2, Section 6
On the Genealogy of Morality (1887)
Context: To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle which even the apes might subscribe; for it has been said that in devising bizarre cruelties they anticipate man and are, as it were his "prelude."
Jerome K. Jerome book Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
"On Being Idle".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
“Whatever you do willingly, you enjoy. Whatever you do unwillingly, you suffer.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“Most works of art are, necessarily, bad…; one suffers through the many for the few.”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
“The Little Cars”, p. 200
Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
“You know that there is a time to do one thing and another time to enjoy it.”
Doris Veillette (1935–2019) Quebec journalist
Chronicle "Interdit aux hommes" (Forbidden to men), by Doris Veillette-Hamel, Journal Le Nouvelliste, January 4, 1971, page 18.
Chronicle "Forbidden to men", 1971