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Suffering Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need…
- Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction of barter: we…
- It is a talent of the weak to persuade themselves that they suffer for something when they suffer from something; that they are showing the…
- The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin,…
- Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
- It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
More Suffering Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila
- As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. — Bob Beauprez
- He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and… — Aeschylus