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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
Suffering Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Suffering

1.
To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle

2.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
Mansfield, Katherine

3.
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

4.
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

5.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
Donne, John

6.
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

7.
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

8.
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

9.
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.

10.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Proust, Marcel

11.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison

12.
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

13.
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

14.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Victor Hugo

15.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Lynd, Robert

16.
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Ciardi, John

17.
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

18.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius

19.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Sontag, Susan

20.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
Blackstone, Sir William

21.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Disraeli, Benjamin

22.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

23.
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

24.
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
Seneca

25.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Flack, Roberta

26.
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

27.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus

28.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isodore Duncan

29.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Beecher, Henry Ward

30.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
Seneca

31.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Williams, Tennessee

32.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

33.
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

34.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

35.
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Carlyle, Thomas

36.
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

37.
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

38.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Wilde, Oscar

39.
Great artists suffer for the people.
Gaye, Marvin

40.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

41.
It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]
Bible

42.
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

43.
Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde

44.
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

45.
We all choke.
Strange, Curtis

46.
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

47.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

48.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
Jose Marti

49.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Renard, Jules

50.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe


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