--- title: "8 Said Suffering Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Said Suffering quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Said Suffering sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba1/oscar-wilde-16_beauty_i-remember-talking-once-on-this-subject_42172.jpg" --- > [“I remember talking once on this subject to one of the most beautiful personalities I have ever known: a woman, whose sympathy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-remember-talking-once-on-this-subject-to-one-of-the-most-beautiful/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba1/oscar-wilde-16_beauty_i-remember-talking-once-on-this-subject_42172.jpg) > [“Life itself is too painful to bear, Madeline had said. Sometimes, suffering feels like an escape.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-wallace/life-itself-is-too-painful-to-bear-madeline-had-said-sometimes/) [Michael Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-wallace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/295/michael-wallace-43354_life_life-itself-is-too-painful-to-bear-madel_237016.jpg) > [“Buddhism, which does not center on a god, but rather on a human who said suffering arises from craving.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fastreads/buddhism-which-does-not-center-on-a-god-but-rather-on-a-human-who/) [FastReads](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fastreads/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de9/fastreads-20320_buddhism_buddhism-which-does-not-center-on-a-god_382034.jpg) > [“I would not dare Console you if I could. What can be said, Except that suffering is exact, but where Desire takes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-larkin/i-would-not-dare-console-you-if-i-could-what-can-be-said-except-that/) [Philip Larkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-larkin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4fe/philip-larkin-1822_desire_i-would-not-dare-console-you-if-i-could_411566.jpg) > [“Hakeem: A wise man once said that suffering produces perseverance, character; and character, hope. Andre: Since when did spouting masochism make one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/booker-t-mattison/hakeem-a-wise-man-once-said-that-suffering-produces-perseverance/) [Booker T. Mattison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/booker-t-mattison/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc0/booker-t-mattison-224033_character_hakeem-a-wise-man-once-said-that-sufferi_1175438.jpg) > [“When I die I hope it may be said: 'Her suffering was black, but her books were read'.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shannon-alder/when-i-die-i-hope-it-may-be-said-her-suffering-was-black-but-her/) [Shannon Alder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shannon-alder/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/938/shannon-alder-9851_author_when-i-die-i-hope-it-may-be-said-her-suf_1594681.jpg) > [“Thomas Aquinas said of suffering, as Aristotle had said of shame, that it was a thing not good in itself; but a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis-2/thomas-aquinas-said-of-suffering-as-aristotle-had-said-of-shame-that/) [C.S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis-2/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/160/c-s-lewis-121_suffering_thomas-aquinas-said-of-suffering-as-aris_2296485.jpg) > [“The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-green/the-buddha-said-that-suffering-was-caused-by-desire-we-d-learned-and/) [John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-green/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1a8/john-green-12_fall-apart_the-buddha-said-that-suffering-was-cause_2574205.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/said-suffering/#itemlist", "name": "Said Suffering Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I remember talking once on this subject to one of the most beautiful personalities I have ever known: a woman, whose sympathy and noble kindness to me, both before and since the tragedy of my imprisonment, have been beyond power and description; one who has really assisted me, though she does not know it, to bear the burden of my troubles more than any one else in the whole world has, and all through the mere fact of her existence, through her being what she is - partly an ideal and partly an influence: a suggestion of what one might become as well as a real help towards becoming it; a soul that renders the common air sweet, and makes what is spiritual seem as simple and natural as sunlight or the sea: one for whom beauty and sorrow walk hand in hand, and have the same message. On the occasion of which I am thinking I recall distinctly how I said to her that there was enough suffering in one narrow London lane to show that God did not love man, and that wherever there was any sorrow, though but that of a child, in some little garden weeping over a fault that it had or had not committed, the whole face of creation was completely marred. I was entirely wrong. She told me so, but I could not believe her. I was not in the sphere in which such belief was to be attained to. 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