Motivational Quotes

Suffering

We all choke.

- Strange, Curtis

Best Quotes about Suffering

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

To perceive is to suffer.

Aristotle

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

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Flack, Roberta

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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.

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

Seneca

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

Donne, John

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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

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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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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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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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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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

Isodore Duncan

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

Proust, Marcel

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

Faulkner, William

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

Henri-FrÚdÚric Amiel

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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

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

Herodotus

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It is the lot of man to suffer.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bible

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

Mansfield, Katherine

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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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We all choke.

Strange, Curtis

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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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A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Renard, Jules

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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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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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One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Teresa

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

Jose Marti

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It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer

Blackstone, Sir William

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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

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

Gurdjieff, George

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

Joseph Addison

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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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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Great artists suffer for the people.

Gaye, Marvin

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

Claudius