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50+ Suffering Quotes

Suffering is common in life. Life has it's own ups and downs. Suffering makes us strong. This is a collection of 53 Suffering quotes and sayings.



In suffering we find our truest selves. - Jessie Burton
The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain. - Karl Marx
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. - William Butler Yeats
Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. - Brennan Manning
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. - Seneca
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Khalil Gibran
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. - Bob Marley
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. - Benjamin Disraeli
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. - Sigmund Freud
It is by suffering that human beings become angels. - Victor Hugo
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. - Aristotle
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. - Helen Keller
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full. - Marcel Proust
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. - Michel de Montaigne
Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human. - Janet Fitch
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. - Laura Ingalls Wilder
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. - Franz Kafka
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. - Aeschylus
Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature. - Rainn Wilson
History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past. - Roger Rees
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. - Theodore Roosevelt
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. - William Wordsworth
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. - Marcus Garvey
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. - Carl Jung
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. - John Green
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Kahlil Gibran
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. - Thomas Hardy
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. - Albert Schweitzer
If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering. Katerina - Stoykova Klemer
Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering. - Santosh Kalwar
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering. - Dalai Lama XIV
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. - Oscar Wilde
People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering. - Edward St. Aubyn
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. - Roland Barthes
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. - Philip Yancey
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection. - Amit Ray
Suffering just means you’re having a bad dream. Happiness means you’re having a good dream. Enlightenment means getting out of the dream altogether. - Jed McKenna
Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love. - Mother Teresa
Suffering teaches joy. - Sonia Rumzi
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. - H.G. Wells
Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked. - Christopher McDougall
One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things. - Joe Abercrombie
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised. - Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. - Christiaan Barnard
Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. - Graham Greene
Nothing eases suffering like human touch. - Bobby Fischer
No one is ever holy without suffering. - Evelyn Waugh
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are. - Allan Lokos
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering. - Jane Austen
Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is. - Faustina Kowalska
Suffering is a part of real life lesson. - Toba Beta
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