Suffering Quotes & Sayings

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~ Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined. ~

Lesley Hazelton

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

Tennessee Williams

~ I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ~

Oscar Wilde

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

Oscar Wilde

~ Suffering is part of the divine idea. ~

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Henri-FrÈdÈric Amiel

~ Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined. ~

Lesley Hazelton

~ Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little ~

Buddha

~ Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted children living in misery ~

Unknown

~ You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. ~

John Ciardi

~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved ~

Helen Adams Keller

~ A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring. ~

Dalai Lama

~ She ordered a cup of tea, which proved excessively bad, and this gave her a sense that she was suffering in a romantic cause. ~

Henry James

~ We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. ~

Sir John Lubbock

~ Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. ~

Tom Stoppard

~ The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism. ~

Daniel Ortega

~ Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate? ~

Dalai Lama

~ If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. ~

Samuel E. Morison

~ Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. ~

Dennis Prager

~ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ~

Woody Allen

~ We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love. ~

Sigmund Freud

~ Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~

Helen Keller

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

Dr. Alexis Carrel

~ Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope . ~

Bible

~ Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. ~

John Ruskin

~ The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities. ~

Theodore Roosevelt

~ The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ~

Samuel Smiles

~ Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. ~

Robert G Ingersoll

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