Suffering Quotes

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

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

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

William Wordsworth

What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.

Ovid

What is the noble truth of suffering? Birth is suffering, ageing is suffering and sorrow and lamentation, pain, grief and despair are suffering.

Buddha

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

Horace

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Oscar Wilde

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

Helen Keller