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Suffering

Suffering is part of the divine idea.
- Beecher, Henry Ward
Suffering Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Suffering

1.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

2.
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

3.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Faulkner, William

4.
We all choke.
Strange, Curtis

5.
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

6.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
Jose Marti

7.
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

8.
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

9.
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.
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Teresa

11.
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

12.
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

13.
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Renard, Jules

14.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

15.
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

16.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Gurdjieff, George

17.
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
Armour, Richard

18.
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.
Victor Hugo

19.
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

20.
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

21.
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

22.
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

23.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
Mansfield, Katherine

24.
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isodore Duncan

25.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.
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

27.
Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde

28.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Beecher, Henry Ward

29.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

30.
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

31.
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

32.
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

33.
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

34.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Disraeli, Benjamin

35.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius

36.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Proust, Marcel

37.
To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle

38.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Lynd, Robert

39.
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

40.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Sontag, Susan

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

42.
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

43.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe

44.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Williams, Tennessee

45.
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

46.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

47.
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Ciardi, John

48.
You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.

49.
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

50.
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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