Suffering Quotes
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 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
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
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
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
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
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
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.Trevor Rook
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.Athol Fugard
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
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 cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.Edward Dahlberg
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
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
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
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
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
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.Marianne Moore
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
A cold in the head cause less suffering than an idea.Jules Renard
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
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".
The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.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 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
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.Sigmund Freud
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
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
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 is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
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
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
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
