Suffering Quotes

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.

Trevor Rook

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

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.

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

Gustave Flaubert

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

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

Fyodor Dostoevski

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

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

Helen Kelle

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.

Unknown

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

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

Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

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

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

La Rochefoucauld

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

Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

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

Helen Kelle

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Jane Austen

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

Helen Kelle

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

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

Henri Frdric Amiel

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

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

Marcel Proust

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

Marianne Moore

There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.

Woody Allen

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

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

Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.

Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.

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

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard

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

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

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

Jules Renard

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Athol Fugard