Suffering Quotes

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marcus Aurelius

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Helen Keller

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity

William Wordsworth

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

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.

Simone Weil

All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

Marshall Rosenberg

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

Aristotle

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Les Brown

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

John Calvin

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Horace

He who suffers much will know much

Greek proverb

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

Marcel Proust

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