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title: "6 Suffering Better Quotes by 6 authors"
description: "Browse 6 Suffering Better quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Suffering Better sayings and thoughts."
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> [“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fyodor-dostoyevsky/i-m-now-asking-an-idle-question-of-my-own-which-is-better-cheap/)

[Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fyodor-dostoyevsky/)

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> [“As stone suffers of stoniness, As light of its shiningness, As birds of their wingedness, So I of my whoness. And what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laura-riding-jackson/as-stone-suffers-of-stoniness-as-light-of-its-shiningness-as-birds-of/)

[Laura Riding Jackson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laura-riding-jackson/)

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> [We have to go through pain and suffering to be better and become stronger like a seed dropped in dirt covered with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-vasquez/we-have-to-go-through-pain-and-suffering-to-be-better-and-become/)

[Christian Vasquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-vasquez/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d74/christian-vasquez-27581_being-strong_we-have-to-go-through-pain-and-suffering_1041413.jpg)

> [People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dashiell-hammett/people-always-say-things-like-oh-well-he-was-suffering-so-much-that/)

[Dashiell Hammett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dashiell-hammett/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ee/dashiell-hammett-3863_always_people-always-say-things-like-oh-well-he_1867049.png)

> [To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-maeterlinck/to-be-good-we-must-needs-have-suffered-but-perhaps-it-is-necessary-to/)

[Maurice Maeterlinck](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-maeterlinck/)

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> [Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/suffering-is-better-than-sinning-there-is-more-evil-in-a-drop-of-sin/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/265/charles-spurgeon-82_affliction_suffering-is-better-than-sinning-there-i_2672115.png)

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