Frida Kahlo (1907–1954) Mexican painter
Quote in Imagen de Frida Kahlo by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (Mexico City) (10 June 1951)
1946 - 1953
“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan
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Max Beerbohm (1872–1956) English writer
Source: Zuleika Dobson http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/zdbsn11.txt (1911), Ch. XV
“Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?”
John Milton book Paradise Lost
Source: Paradise Lost
“Other people’s faults can be fascinating. One’s own are dreary.”
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 48 (p. 647)
“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death.”
Edward Abbey book Down the River
Down the River (1982)
Context: Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.