Top suffering Quotes Collection

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Image of Aeschylus
Only through suffering do we learn
- Aeschylus
Collection: Suffering
Image of Bernhard Schlink
The more I suffer, the more I love.
- Bernhard Schlink
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Image of F.E. Higgins
suffering sweetens the reward
- F.E. Higgins
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Image of Jonathan Maberry
Suffering is easier to endure when shared.
- Jonathan Maberry
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Image of Katherine Anne Porter
You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.
- Katherine Anne Porter
Collection: Suffering
Image of Anna Sewell
What right had they to make me suffer like that?
- Anna Sewell
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Image of Dodie Smith
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
- Dodie Smith
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Image of Jacqueline Carey
It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
- Jacqueline Carey
Collection: Suffering
Image of Charles Robert Maturin
It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.
- Charles Robert Maturin
Collection: Suffering
Image of Harry Stack Sullivan
There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.
- Harry Stack Sullivan
Collection: Suffering
Image of J.R. Miller
Nothing does so much to help those who suffer as to know that somebody cares.
- J.R. Miller
Collection: Suffering
Image of David Malouf
What else is death but the refusal any longer to grow and suffer change?
- David Malouf
Collection: Suffering
Image of Gail Caldwell
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.
- Gail Caldwell
Collection: Suffering
Image of William Tyndale
All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.
- William Tyndale
Collection: Suffering
Image of Somaly Mam
I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.
- Somaly Mam
Collection: Suffering
Image of Catherine Zeta-Jones
There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Collection: Suffering
Image of Jose Rizal
He who would love much has also much to suffer.
- Jose Rizal
Collection: Suffering
Image of D.T. Suzuki
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
- D.T. Suzuki
Collection: Suffering
Image of Bobby Hull
Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done
- Bobby Hull
Collection: Suffering
Image of Alain de Botton
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
- Alain de Botton
Collection: Suffering
Image of Nathaniel Branden
Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.
- Nathaniel Branden
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Image of Nancy Farmer
After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?
- Nancy Farmer
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Image of Alfred de Vigny
I love the majesty of human suffering.
- Alfred de Vigny
Collection: Suffering
Image of Thomas Ligotti
Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada
- Thomas Ligotti
Collection: Suffering
Image of Robert Walser
At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.
- Robert Walser
Collection: Suffering
Image of Brom
Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.
- Brom
Collection: Suffering
Image of Cornel West
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
- Cornel West
Collection: Suffering
Image of Ayrton Senna
I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs my life, I hope it happens in one instant.
- Ayrton Senna
Collection: Suffering
Image of David O. Russell
The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all.
- David O. Russell
Collection: Suffering
Image of Richard Wurmbrand
A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.
- Richard Wurmbrand
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Image of Alfred de Musset
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering.
- Alfred de Musset
Collection: Suffering
Image of William Shakespeare
We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Suffering
Image of Cato the Elder
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
- Cato the Elder
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Image of Milton Berle
Jews don't drink much because it interferes with their suffering.
- Milton Berle
Collection: Suffering
Image of Joni Eareckson Tada
God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
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Image of Allison Pearson
Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
- Allison Pearson
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Image of Diego Rivera
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
- Diego Rivera
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Image of Maxwell Bodenheim
H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.
- Maxwell Bodenheim
Collection: Suffering
Image of Charles Peguy
Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.
- Charles Peguy
Collection: Suffering
Image of Clare Vanderpool
When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.
- Clare Vanderpool
Collection: Suffering
Image of Sarah Addison Allen
Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.
- Sarah Addison Allen
Collection: Suffering
Image of E. Lockhart
I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.
- E. Lockhart
Collection: Suffering
Image of Li-Young Lee
We suffer each other to have each other a while.
- Li-Young Lee
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Image of Evelyn Waugh
No one is ever holy without suffering.
- Evelyn Waugh
Collection: Suffering
Image of Washington Gladden
Will you tell Him frankly, that you cannot carry your load, and that you need help? Will you suffer Him to help you in His own way, and be glad and thankful if He will only take you under His care, and direct the whole course of your life for you?
- Washington Gladden
Collection: Suffering
Image of Miguel
You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.
- Miguel
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Image of Alfred Sutro
That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
- Alfred Sutro
Collection: Suffering
Image of Ming-Dao Deng
Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.
- Ming-Dao Deng
Collection: Suffering
Image of Christian Wiman
God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.
- Christian Wiman
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Image of Julius Caesar
It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.
- Julius Caesar
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