Motivational Quotes

Suffering

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

- Flack, Roberta

Best Quotes about Suffering

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

Isodore Duncan

You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.

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

Joseph Addison

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca

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

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

I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.

Erica Eisdorfer

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Seneca

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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

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We all choke.

Strange, Curtis

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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

13.

To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide.

Pavese, Cesare

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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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Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Williams, Tennessee

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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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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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

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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

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

Victor Hugo

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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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One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Teresa

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Donne, John

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

Helen Keller

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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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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

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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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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The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Herodotus

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You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Ciardi, John

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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gurdjieff, George

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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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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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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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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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To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

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

Jose Marti

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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...

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It is the lot of man to suffer.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.

Bible

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

Faulkner, William

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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

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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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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

Claudius