Suffering Quotes

We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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.

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

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Norman Maile

Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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

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

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

Character can not 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

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

Thucydides

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.

Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.

Jules Renard

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

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Fyodor Dostoevski

Suffering. We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

Anatole France

To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

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

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

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

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Helen Kelle

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Athol Fugard

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

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

Helen Kelle

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

Akhenaton

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

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

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key.

Charles Fletcher Lummis

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

La Rochefoucauld

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson