Suffering Quotes

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.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The root of suffering is attachment.

When elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

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

I've suffered too much to hide my feelings.

Better suffer for the truth than prosper in a falsehood.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

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

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

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

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

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love.

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

I do not suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

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

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret.

We are one, after all, you and I. Together we suffer, together exist, and forever will recreate each other.

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

The reward of suffering is experience.

I am choosing happiness over suffering. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity for accepting and having compassion for them is there.