Famous Suffering Quotes
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain
They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.
Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
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.
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.
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.