Motivational Quotes
Suffering
Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime -- I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful. I agree that it's hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain deserves no consideration at all. It's no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.
Best Quotes about Suffering
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Flack, Roberta
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
Maugham, W. Somerset
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Sontag, Susan
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Seneca
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Proust, Marcel
We all choke.
Strange, Curtis
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
Mencken, H. L.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Seneca
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.
Mother Teresa
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.
Pavese, Cesare
You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Faulkner, William
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
Orwell, George
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
Great artists suffer for the people.
Gaye, Marvin
In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
Bertrand Russell
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Williams, Tennessee
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.
Thich Nhat Hanh
It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]
Bible
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius
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
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
Suso, Heinrich
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
KuBler-Ross, Elisabeth
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
G. K. Chesterton
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
Bradley, Francis H.
If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all...
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hesse, Hermann
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Teresa
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Carlyle, Thomas
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Disraeli, Benjamin
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Victor Hugo
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
Armour, Richard
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
Blackstone, Sir William
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Schopenhauer, Arthur
Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
Camus, Albert
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
Jose Marti
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
La Fontaine, Jean De
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
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Beecher, Henry Ward
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Carrel, Alexis
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Unamuno, Miguel De
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