Suffering Quotes

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If suffer we must, let`s suffer on the heights.

- Victor Hugo

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

- Edgar Allan Poe

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

- Adam Craig

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

- Helen Keller

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

- Adam Deadmarsh

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

- Adrienne Norris

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

- Adriano Belli

But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

- Barbara Hall

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

- Adam Lanehart

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

- Helen Keller

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

- Bertrand Russell

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

- Adam Hollis

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

- Adrienne Gonzalez

If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea; if thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can`t you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb; and if thou shouldest be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep, if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man (Jesus Christ) hath descended below them all; art thou greater than he?

- Andy Law

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

- Woody Allen

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ``Blessed are they that mourn.``

- C.S. Lewis

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

- Oscar Wilde

The heart was made to be broken

- Oscar Wilde

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

- Oscar Wilde

To become a spectator of one`s own life is to escape the suffering of life.

- Oscar Wilde

He jests at scars that never felt a wound

- William Shakespeare

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it`s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you`re fighting for.

- Paulo Coelho

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

- Chuck Palahniuk

You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --

- Victor Hugo

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

- G.K. Chesterton

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other

- Albert Pike

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

- Alexander Nikonov

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

- Ben Okri

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

- Confucius

We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.

- Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

- Jim Rohn

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues

- Robert Maynard Hutchins

When you see Washington consistently turning a blind eye to suffering, don't sit back and apathetically blame indifference. The loudest voices may be delivering the worst messages today, but history shows that grass-roots energy has the power to change anything when that energy is focused toward justice

- Senator John Kerry

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt

- Thomas Merton

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

- Thomas Sydenham