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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
, dramatist
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.
, author
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
, author
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
, poet
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
, leader
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
, historian
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
, statesman
As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.
, novelist
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
, president
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
, author
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.
, author
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
, poet
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
, artist
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.
, writer
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
, psychologist
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.
, novelist
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
, scientist
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
, writer
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
, novelist
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
, philosopher
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
, writer
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
, author
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.
, philosopher
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
, rhetorician
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
, author
You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.
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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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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
, philosopher
The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.
, poet
It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. Psalms 119:71
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Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
, poet
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
, musician
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
, director
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
, leader
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
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Great artists suffer for the people.
, musician
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
, writer
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
, british
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
, philosopher
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
, dramatist
I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true -- men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe --
, poet
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
, politician
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
, philosopher
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
, poet
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
, dramatist
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
, rhetorician
My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.
, author
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
, musician
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.
, novelist
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
, philosopher
Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
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It is the lot of man to suffer.
, statesman
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
, author
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
, author
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
, journalist
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
, poet
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.
, statesman
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.
, philosopher
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
, actor
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
, poet
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
, clergyman
Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
, poet
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
, saint
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
, dramatist
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.
, politician
I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.
, author
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.
, author
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.
, actress
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.
, psychologist
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.
, statesman
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
, author
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
, lawyer
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.
, novelist
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
, novelist
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.
, musician
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
, scientist
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
, theologian
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
, theologian
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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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.
, novelist
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
, writer
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.
, musician
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
, leader
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
, theologian
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.
, clergyman
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
, poet
Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
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In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
, philosopher
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
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Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.
, novelist
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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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.
, novelist
Our sufferings will give us strength to help create a brave new world without needless sufferings.
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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
, playwright
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
, philosopher
No one could be more happy than a man who has never known affliction
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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
, philosopher
We all choke.
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Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
, theologian
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. . . . Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
, educator
If you learn from your suffering, and really come to understand the lesson you were taught, you might be able to help someone else who's now in the phase you may have just completed. Maybe that's what it's all about after all...
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I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
, dramatist
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.
, philosopher
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.
, painter
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.
, novelist
Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?
, writer
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
, philosopher
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
, musician
Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
, comedian
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
, author
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
, politician
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
, historian
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
, psychologist
As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.
, statesman
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.
, statesman
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
, director
When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'
, politician
If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
, activist
Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that's what the consultant said I had.
, politician
It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
, statesman
I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
, statesman
I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.
, musician
Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.
, actor
The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.
, clergyman
Our arguments - and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice - are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.
, politician
Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.
, athlete
I don't look at myself as suffering.
, actress
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
, author
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
, dramatist
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.
, philosopher
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
, author
The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look.
, journalist
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
, playwright
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.
, writer
To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.
, director
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.
, president
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
, statesman
War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.
, soldier
To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.
, actress
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.
, activist
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
, educator
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
, writer
The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
, philosopher
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