Suffering Quotes
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.Jane Austen
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.Norman Maile
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.Athol Fugard
Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.Mother Teresa, - - Letter to U. S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.Sigmund Freud
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.Fyodor Dostoevski
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.Trevor Rook
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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.Leigh Hunt
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being and only suffering teaches him this.Simone Weil
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
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, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.Eric Mascall
That man is good who does good to others if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further it is heroic, it is perfect.La Bruyere
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
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 Kelle
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.Helen Kelle
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.Gustave Flaubert
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.Edward Dahlberg
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!Anonymous
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.Tom Stoppard
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
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.Louise Bogan
