Motivational Quotes

Suffering

It is the lot of man to suffer.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Suffering

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Isodore Duncan

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

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.

Kathryn L. Nelson

I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.

Erica Eisdorfer

Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

Mansfield, Katherine

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To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

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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

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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Carrel, Alexis

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is the lot of man to suffer.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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

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We all choke.

Strange, Curtis

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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Lynd, Robert

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Flack, Roberta

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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

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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

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The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.

Weil, Simone

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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

Seneca

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

Renard, Jules

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A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Joseph Addison

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I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

Armour, Richard

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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Kafka, Franz

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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.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Jose Marti

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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

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

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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.

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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

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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

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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Victor Hugo

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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.

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You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.

Artaud, Antonin

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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca

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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Faulkner, William

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Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

Oscar Wilde

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A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.