Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to… — Phillips Brooks
I wish no living thing to suffer pain. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering… — Victor Hugo
Please choose the way of peace.. In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that… — Mother Teresa
There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is… — Jorge Luis Borges
If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there. — Barry Hannah
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering. — Alfred de Musset
I cannot stand being awake, the pain is too much. — Spike Milligan
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery. — Dante Alighieri
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity… — A. S. Byatt
Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little. — Mason Cooley
It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does… — Galen Strawson
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do… — Epictetus
Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. — Roy Hattersley
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. — Victor Hugo
For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering. — John Keats
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally… — Benjamin Franklin
By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer… — Janet Flanner
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste… — Ben Okri
The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never destroy you, but… — Ben Okri
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways. — Unknown Author
I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not… — Richard Adams
Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can… — Edward Abbey

Who Wrote These Suffering Quotes

2,923 authors contributed a total of 6,116 Suffering Quotes, led by these top contributors: