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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
- Seneca
Suffering Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Suffering

1.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison

2.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Faulkner, William

3.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

4.
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

5.
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

6.
It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]
Bible

7.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Gurdjieff, George

8.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Williams, Tennessee

9.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

10.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isodore Duncan

11.
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
Armour, Richard

12.
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

13.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
Blackstone, Sir William

14.
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

15.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

16.
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

17.
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Teresa

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Ciardi, John

23.
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

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

25.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Renard, Jules

26.
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

27.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

28.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Flack, Roberta

29.
Great artists suffer for the people.
Gaye, Marvin

30.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Sontag, Susan

31.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
Mansfield, Katherine

32.
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

33.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus

34.
We all choke.
Strange, Curtis

35.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Beecher, Henry Ward

36.
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
La Fontaine, Jean De

37.
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

38.
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

39.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.
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

41.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Carrel, Alexis

42.
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

43.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Lynd, Robert

44.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

45.
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

46.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe

47.
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

48.
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

49.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Disraeli, Benjamin

50.
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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