And I sought this suffering. I waited for you to arrive. I loitered round your chair, so as to move in your breath, to drag my clothes over yours.
Et je cherchais cette souffrance, j'attendais ta venue, je tournais autour de ta chaise, pour marcher dans ton haleine, pour traîner mes vêtements le long des tiens.
He was still in his prime, and had always held that it was not good for man to live alone, although, personally, thanks to his ardour for work, he had hitherto escaped excessive suffering in his bereavement.
Il était vigoureux encore, il avait toujours professé que l’homme ne devait pas vivre seul, bien qu’il n’eût pas trop souffert, jusque-là, de son veuvage, dans son acharnement au travail.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
Decidedly it is true that one must continue battling until one's last breath, and that happiness is only to be won by suffering and tears.
Décidément, jusqu’au dernier souffle, il faut se battre, et le bonheur ne se gagne que dans la souffrance et dans les larmes...
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
"It seems she was suffering from nightmare, and terrible insomnia.
Il paraît qu'elle a eu des cauchemars, une insomnie terrible....
Her voice died away, she was already falling into an ecstasy, her hands clasped, her eyes raised towards the white statue, in a beatific transfiguration of the whole of her poor suffering face.
Sa voix défaillait, elle tombait déjà à l’extase, les mains jointes, les yeux levés vers la statue blanche, dans une transfiguration béate de tout son pauvre visage dévasté.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes
Zola, Emile
Here there was no deceit, no falsehood, merely the blossoming of suffering, a delicate sick child who brought to the afflicted multitude her dream of justice and equality in the miraculous.
Ici, aucune supercherie, aucun mensonge, la seule floraison de la souffrance, une chétive fillette malade qui apportait au peuple des souffrants son rêve de justice, d’égalité dans le miracle.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes
Zola, Emile
The longer he lived, the more cowardly he felt himself in presence of suffering.
Plus il allait, et plus il se sentait lâche devant la souffrance.
And Utkin saw that his suffering and the interrogation that went unanswered had long since found classic expression in the Western World: the dreariness of so-called real life versus the pyrotechnics of fantasy; ordinary life and dreams.
Et Outkine vit que sa souffrance et ses interrogations sans réponse avaient depuis longtemps trouvé en Occident une expression classique: la misère de la vie dite réelle et les feux d'artifice de l'imaginaire, le quotidien et le rêve.
Makine, Andrei / Once Upon The River LoveMakine, Andrei / Au temps du fleuve Amour
Serge's fever returned, and he spent a day of suffering, with his eyes despairingly fixed upon the curtains through which the light now fell dim and ashy grey as in a cellar.
Serge, repris par la fièvre, passa une journée de souffrance, les yeux fixés désespérément sur les rideaux, d'où ne tombait qu'une lueur de cave, louche, d'un gris de cendre.
Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
And what suffering to have to lend herself so that the other might be created, so that she might be haunted by a nightmare of that rival, so that the latter might for ever rise between them, more powerful than reality!
et quelle souffrance de prêter sa chair, pour que l’autre naquît, pour que le cauchemar de cette rivale les hantât, fût toujours entre eux, plus puissant que le réel, dans l’atelier, à table, au lit, partout!
Zola, Emile / His MasterpieceZola, Emile / L'Oeuvre
L'Oeuvre
Zola, Emile
His Masterpiece
Zola, Emile
Ah, Beethoven! power and strength amidst serene suffering, Michael Angelo at the tomb of the Medici!
Ah! Beethoven, la puissance, la force dans la douleur sereine, Michel-Ange au tombeau des Médicis!
Zola, Emile / His MasterpieceZola, Emile / L'Oeuvre
L'Oeuvre
Zola, Emile
His Masterpiece
Zola, Emile
It was certainly rather rough on the City, but what cared we for human suffering?
Ce serait assurément un sale coup pour la Cité, mais que nous importait présentement la souffrance humaine ?
Jerome, Jerome Klapka / Three Men in a BoatJerome, Jerome Klapka / Trois hommes dans le bateau
Trois hommes dans le bateau
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
Three Men in a Boat
Jerome, Jerome Klapka
A love without possession is maintained by the exasperation of desire; but there comes a moment when all is suffering within us-- for in this we have no resemblance to you.
Un amour sans possession se soutient par l’exaspération même des désirs; puis il vient un moment où tout est souffrance en nous, qui ne ressemblons en rien à vous.
Balzac, Honore de / The Lily of the ValleyBalzac, Honore de / Le Lys dans la vallee
Le Lys dans la vallee
Balzac, Honore de
The Lily of the Valley
Balzac, Honore de
He was there as the ambassador of suffering, as he had said.
Il était là, dans sa brusque faiblesse d’enfant nerveux, l’ambassadeur de la souffrance, ainsi qu’il l’avait dit.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Rome
Zola, Emile
She hungered for that finish, hungered to the point of suffering, seized by one of those sudden desperate longings which beget crime i such as when a passer-by is despoiled and throttled at the corner of a street.
Elle avait faim de cela, elle en souffrait, prise d’une de ces fringales qui font le crime, le passant dépouillé, égorgé, au coin d’une rue.
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
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pain and suffering
préjudice moral
suffer a defeat
essuyer une défaite
Word forms
suffer
verb
Basic forms
Past
suffered
Imperative
suffer
Present Participle (Participle I)
suffering
Past Participle (Participle II)
suffered
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I suffer
we suffer
you suffer
you suffer
he/she/it suffers
they suffer
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am suffering
we are suffering
you are suffering
you are suffering
he/she/it is suffering
they are suffering
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have suffered
we have suffered
you have suffered
you have suffered
he/she/it has suffered
they have suffered
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been suffering
we have been suffering
you have been suffering
you have been suffering
he/she/it has been suffering
they have been suffering
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I suffered
we suffered
you suffered
you suffered
he/she/it suffered
they suffered
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was suffering
we were suffering
you were suffering
you were suffering
he/she/it was suffering
they were suffering
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had suffered
we had suffered
you had suffered
you had suffered
he/she/it had suffered
they had suffered
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been suffering
we had been suffering
you had been suffering
you had been suffering
he/she/it had been suffering
they had been suffering
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will suffer
we shall/will suffer
you will suffer
you will suffer
he/she/it will suffer
they will suffer
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be suffering
we shall/will be suffering
you will be suffering
you will be suffering
he/she/it will be suffering
they will be suffering
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have suffered
we shall/will have suffered
you will have suffered
you will have suffered
he/she/it will have suffered
they will have suffered
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been suffering
we shall/will have been suffering
you will have been suffering
you will have been suffering
he/she/it will have been suffering
they will have been suffering
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would suffer
we should/would suffer
you would suffer
you would suffer
he/she/it would suffer
they would suffer
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be suffering
we should/would be suffering
you would be suffering
you would be suffering
he/she/it would be suffering
they would be suffering
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have suffered
we should/would have suffered
you would have suffered
you would have suffered
he/she/it would have suffered
they would have suffered
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice