Suffering Quotes

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.

Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.

I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.

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

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

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

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.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

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.

To perceive is to suffer.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

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.