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Suffering Quotes by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Only through suffering can we find ourselves.
- Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.
- What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.
- Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
- If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.
- Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering...…
- A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the…
- Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.
- Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.
- Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...
- He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that…
- Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on…
- And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I…
- I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.
- And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for…
- And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of…
- To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.
- There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
- It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him…
- I want to suffer so that I may love.
- I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!
- Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.
- Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends…
- Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at…
- Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
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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