suffering quotes

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.

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

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

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We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.

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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

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

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The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

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You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

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Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

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We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

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

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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

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

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What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.

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The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

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

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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

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How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.

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The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

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To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

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

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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

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It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71

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If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

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Great artists suffer for the people.

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A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

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No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

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No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

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To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

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My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

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A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

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

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

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To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

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I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe --

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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.

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I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

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Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.

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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

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Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.

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Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

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It is the lot of man to suffer.

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

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

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Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

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Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

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Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

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Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

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I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

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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.

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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

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It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

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Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

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Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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Suffering is part of the divine idea.

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I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.

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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

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I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

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If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

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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.

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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

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I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

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It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

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

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With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

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I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

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As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

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

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Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

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All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

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The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

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You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

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One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

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When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.