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Suffering Quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.
- It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.
- The transition from Religion to Scientific contemplation is a violent, dangerous leap, which is not to be recommended. In order to make this transition, art…
- What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer…
- Pity makes suffering contagious.
- Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect…
- The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of…
- One pays dearly for being immortal: one must die many times during his life.
- There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
- But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?
- Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by…
- Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?
- But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have…
- Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than…
- Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride, and have no prospect of great conquests: the easy prey - and…
- Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can…
- I have given a name to my pain, and call it "dog".
- In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
- But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that…
- Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?
- The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.
- He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.
- But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!
- You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that…
- O my brothers, am I then cruel? But I say: that which is falling should also be pushed!
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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