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Suffering Quotes by Arthur Schopenhauer
- People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.
- Optimism is not only a false but also a pernicious doctrine, for it presents life as a desirable state and man's happiness as its aim…
- No one knows what capacities for doing and suffering he has in himself, until something comes to rouse them to activity: just as in a…
- This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order…
- How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own,…
- Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free…
- Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- 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…
- To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions…
- If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once…
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- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe,… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. — Jane Austen
- Pain is never permanent. — Teresa of Avila
- Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. — Teresa of Avila