suffering quotes

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

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”

— Paulo Coelho

“Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?”

— Antoine de Saint Exupery

“ Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”

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

“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”

“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”

— Honore de Balzac

“We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is by suffering that human beings become angels.”

— Victor Hugo

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

— Franz Kafka

“Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.”

— Franz Kafka

“On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.”

— George Washington Bush

“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ”

— Kurt Cobain

“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

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

— Helen Keller

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”

“I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.”

“Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.”

— Princess Diana

“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

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.”

— Charles Stanley

“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”

— Angelina Jolie

“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ”

— Winston Churchill

“Great souls suffer in silence.”

— Friedrich Schiller

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