Motivational Quotes

Suffering

We all choke.

- Strange, Curtis

Best Quotes about Suffering

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

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Proust, Marcel

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

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

Herodotus

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

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

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

Isodore Duncan

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

Claudius

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

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

Faulkner, William

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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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It is the lot of man to suffer.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Armour, Richard

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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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One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Teresa

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

Aristotle

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

Ciardi, John

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

Oscar Wilde

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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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Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Great artists suffer for the people.

Gaye, Marvin

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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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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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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Gurdjieff, George