Suffering Quotes
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel Proust
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.Ludwig van Beethoven
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
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, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.Joseph Addison
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.Tom Stoppard
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.Trevor Rook
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.Unknown
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.Helen Kelle
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
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 Kelle
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.Leigh Hunt
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.Hermann Hesse
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.Edward Dahlberg
