Suffering Quotes
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
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
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.Marianne Moore
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
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
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.Fyodor Dostoevski
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
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
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.Jules Renard
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel Proust
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.
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
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.Tom Stoppard
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.Athol Fugard
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.Norman Maile
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
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
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
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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
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
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
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
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.Edward Dahlberg
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
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 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