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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
- Carlyle, Thomas
Suffering Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Suffering

1.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Proust, Marcel

2.
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus

3.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

4.
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Hubbard, Elbert

5.
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.

6.
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

7.
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

8.
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
Joseph Addison

9.
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

10.
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

11.
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

12.
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
Rousseau, Jean Jacques

13.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Edgar Allan Poe

14.
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
Donne, John

15.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Beecher, Henry Ward

16.
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Disraeli, Benjamin

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

20.
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
Gurdjieff, George

21.
To perceive is to suffer.
Aristotle

22.
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

23.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Faulkner, William

24.
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

25.
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

26.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
Wilde, Oscar

27.
Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
Mansfield, Katherine

28.
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

29.
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

30.
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
Armour, Richard

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

32.
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

33.
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Carlyle, Thomas

34.
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

35.
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

36.
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
Ciardi, John

37.
We all choke.
Strange, Curtis

38.
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

39.
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Teresa

40.
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

41.
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

42.
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

43.
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
Blackstone, Sir William

44.
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius

45.
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

46.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
Sontag, Susan

47.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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

49.
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Flack, Roberta

50.
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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