Motivational Quotes

Suffering

We all choke.

- Strange, Curtis

Best Quotes about Suffering

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

Renard, Jules

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

Herodotus

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

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

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

Flack, Roberta

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...

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

Claudius

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

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

10.

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

Blackstone, Sir William

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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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It is the lot of man to suffer.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

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

Seneca

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

Victor Hugo

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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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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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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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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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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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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Edgar Allan Poe

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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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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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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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

28.

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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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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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

31.

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

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

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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 perceive is to suffer.

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

Isodore Duncan

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Helen Keller

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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

Seneca

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We all choke.

Strange, Curtis

43.

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

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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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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

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

Faulkner, William

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Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carlyle, Thomas