Quotes with suffering

  • 'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
  • Reggae music don't really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don't mean black people. It mean people in general.
  • 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.
  • Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
  • Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
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  • Katherine Mansfield Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Aeschylus Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Christianity makes suffering contagious.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • William Butler Yeats Hate is a kind of 'passive suffering', but indignation is a kind of joy.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • William Butler Yeats If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • St. John of the Cross Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • George Orwell 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.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Sir John Lubbock We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
    Sir John Lubbock
    British statesman and banker (1834 - 1913)
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  • Billy Graham 'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Jules Renard A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Anderson Cooper A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • George Gurdjieff A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Bernard Crick A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism,
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Edmund Burke A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Walter Savage Landor Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Vera Brittain All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
    Vera Brittain
    English nurse, writer, feminist, and pacifist (1893 - 1970)
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  • Adam Schiff Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
    Diana Spencer - Princess of Wales
    Member of the British royal family, first wife of Prince Charles (1961 - 1997)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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