Suffering Quotes
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.Fyodor Dostoevski
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
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
You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.Henri Frdric Amiel
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.Hermann Hesse
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.Helen Kelle
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
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
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
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.Sigmund Freud
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
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.Joseph Addison
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
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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
The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness humility and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.Stephen Shobe
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
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
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.Athol Fugard
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
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
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
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel Proust
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.Norman Maile
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 cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.Tom Stoppard
A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.Jules Renard
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.Jane Austen
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
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
