Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel… — Esther Rantzen Copy Share Image
“You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.” — Rossana Condoleo Copy Share Image
Suffering is universal; how we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can take us one of two ways. It can be a… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
Pain ... after you've lived with it long enough, isn't pain anymore. It's something else. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As fire tempers steel, so hardship can temper the human soul.” — Raja (Arasa) Ratnam Copy Share Image
I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they… — Enrico Caruso Copy Share Image
To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
Don't complain about your hardships too much...or else your success might get pissed... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes; recent Government reports indicate that one in every three… — Tim Holden Copy Share Image
We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don't think, if I had not endured great suffering.… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
Those whose hardships are set forth in pamphlets and proclaimed in sermons and speeches which echo throughout society, are assumed to be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Chapter 1 I was sitting in Tina's Sunset Restaurant, watching the outriggers shuffle lazily through the clear waters of Sabang Bay, when… — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
“Why was America so kind and yet so cruel? Was there no way to simplifying things in this continent so that suffering… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it… — Elizabeth of the Trinity Copy Share Image
“When you go through the hardest of times, the people that come to your aid are the ones that you will carry… — Chris Hough Copy Share Image
“The mighty trojans fell, and so did i. A wooden horse you were not, yet in a pool of my own blood… — Anurag Anand Copy Share Image
To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
In the traditional urban novel, there is only survival or not. The suburban idea, the conformist idea, that agony can be seen… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I quickly learned that you don't have to be incarcerated by suffering, and that, in spite of the dysfunctional nature of your… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Experience makes good people better." She was staring at the lake. "How does it do that?" "Through their suffering." "I had enough… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
Suffering is an oxymoron. There is unfathomable peace and satisfaction in suffering for Christ. It is as though you have searched endlessly… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart;… — Shams Tabrizi Copy Share Image
I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.” — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
We like to say we would never want anyone we care about to suffer. But is it because it's we who cannot… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“For the scene of suffering is a scene of joy when the suffering is past; and the silent reminiscence of hardships departed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The gift of life is the gift to suffer sometimes and to embrace it, heartbreak and all. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image