Famous Suffering Quotes



You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka

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

Samuel Johnson

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Samuel Johnson

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

Joseph Joubert

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Emily Dickinson

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Victor Hugo

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Franz Kafka

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Khalil Gibran

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Mark Twain

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Khalil Gibran

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Sigmund Freud

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

Thomas Jefferson

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul.

D. H. Lawrence

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

Marcel Proust

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

Simone Weil

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

Publilius Syrus

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

Michelangelo

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.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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.

Joseph Addison

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