Suffering Quotes

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

George Gurdjieff

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

Tennessee (Thomas Lanier) Willia

No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction

Demetrius Phalerens

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

C.S. Lewis

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

Alexis Carrel

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God.

Mother Theresa

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

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

Herodotus

...But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.

John Green

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.

Jane Austen

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

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

Jane Austen

He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.

Charles Dickens

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

Paulo Coelho

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

I shall know by the gleam and glitter Of the golden chain you wear, By your heart's calm strength in loving, Of the fire you have had to bear. Beat on, true heart, forever; Shine bright, strong golden chain; And bless the cleansing fire And the furnace of living pain!

Adelaide Proctor

Injustice in the end produces independence.

Voltaire

You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

John Ciardi

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

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