Motivational Quotes

Suffering

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

- Victor Hugo

Best Quotes about Suffering

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

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

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

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

Jose Marti

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

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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

11.

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

Ciardi, John

12.

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

Helen Keller

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

La Fontaine, Jean De

15.

We all choke.

Strange, Curtis

16.

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

17.

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

Faulkner, William

18.

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

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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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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

21.

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

Renard, Jules

24.

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

25.

Great artists suffer for the people.

Gaye, Marvin

26.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

27.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

34.

To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

35.

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

Flack, Roberta

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

Lynd, Robert

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

Blackstone, Sir William

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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

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

Isodore Duncan

44.

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

45.

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

Gurdjieff, George

46.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca

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

Claudius

48.

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

Herodotus

49.

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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