Quotes about suffering




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"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."

Aeschylus on suffering
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"Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Aristotle on suffering
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"I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone."

Armour, Richard on suffering    Share

"Suffering is part of the divine idea."

Beecher, Henry Ward on suffering    Share

"It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]"

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"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord."

Bible on suffering
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"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer"

Blackstone, Sir William on suffering    Share

"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least."

Bradley, Francis H. on suffering    Share

"In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day."

Camus, Albert on suffering    Share

"For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing."

Carlyle, Thomas on suffering
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"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor."

Carrel, Alexis on suffering
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"You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."

Ciardi, John on suffering    Share

"No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing."

Claudius on suffering    Share

"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."

Dahlberg, Edward on suffering    Share

"I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe --"

Dickinson, Emily on suffering    Share

"It is the lot of man to suffer."

Disraeli, Benjamin on suffering    Share

"Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it."

Donne, John on suffering    Share

"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."

Faulkner, William on suffering
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

Flack, Roberta on suffering
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"Great artists suffer for the people."

Gaye, Marvin on suffering    Share

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering."

Gurdjieff, George on suffering    Share

"The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing."

Herodotus on suffering    Share

"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."

Hubbard, Elbert on suffering
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

Kafka, Franz on suffering
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"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."

Keller, Helen on suffering
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"There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning."

KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth on suffering    Share

"Rather suffer than die is man's motto."

La Fontaine, Jean De on suffering    Share

"Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on suffering    Share

"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."

Lynd, Robert on suffering    Share

"Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery."

Mansfield, Katherine on suffering    Share

"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."

Maugham, W. Somerset on suffering    Share

"How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh."

Mencken, H. L. on suffering
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"Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on suffering    Share

"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa on suffering
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