Motivational Quotes

Suffering

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Suffering

We all choke.

Strange, Curtis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Donne, John

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

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.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Aristotle

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Beecher, Henry Ward

To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

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...

10.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

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

12.

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

Victor Hugo

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

Ciardi, John

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We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other.

Freud, Sigmund

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

Proust, Marcel

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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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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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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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Great artists suffer for the people.

Gaye, Marvin

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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer

Blackstone, Sir William

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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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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

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

Gurdjieff, George

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca

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

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

Renard, Jules

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

Seneca

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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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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

41.

It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]

Bible

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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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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

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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Sontag, Susan

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

Faulkner, William

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

Claudius

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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