Suffering Quotes

35 quotations about Suffering
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus · Suffering
I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.
Richard Armour · Suffering
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Henry Ward Beecher · Suffering
It is good for me that I was afflicted that I may learn Thy statutes. [Psalms 119:71]
Bible · Suffering
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer
Sir William Blackstone · Suffering
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Thomas Carlyle · Suffering
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel · Suffering
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi · Suffering
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.
Claudius · Suffering
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
Edward Dahlberg · Suffering
It is the lot of man to suffer.
Benjamin Disraeli · Suffering
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.
John Donne · Suffering
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
William Faulkner · Suffering
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Roberta Flack · Suffering
Great artists suffer for the people.
Marvin Gaye · Suffering
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
George Gurdjieff · Suffering
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.
Herodotus · Suffering
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
Elbert Hubbard · Suffering
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller · Suffering
Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean De La Fontaine · Suffering
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Robert Lynd · Suffering
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne · Suffering
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
Mother Teresa · Suffering
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Marcel Proust · Suffering
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
Jules Renard · Suffering

Authors on Suffering

Aeschylus Richard Armour Henry Ward Beecher Bible Sir William Blackstone Thomas Carlyle Alexis Carrel John Ciardi Claudius Edward Dahlberg Benjamin Disraeli John Donne William Faulkner Roberta Flack Marvin Gaye George Gurdjieff Herodotus Elbert Hubbard Helen Keller Jean De La Fontaine