Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such… — Edward Hoagland
If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. — Sun Tzu
Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace… — Ralph Bunche
I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible. — Sue Grafton
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka
When a man finds that it is his destiny to suffer, he will have to accept his suffering as his task. . . . He… — Viktor E. Frankl
If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway. — Jan Carlzon
Shared suffering: one guy messes up and everyone runs. One guy does well and everyone benefits. — Don Meyer
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is… — Ouida
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. — Oscar Wilde
I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. — Princess Diana
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear. — Michel de Montaigne
We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the… — Oswald Chambers
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel… — Mahatma Gandhi
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. — William Faulkner
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. — John Donne
It is the lot of man to suffer. — Benjamin Disraeli
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. — Thomas Carlyle
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth. — Michel de Montaigne
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst… — Albert Camus
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. — Edward Dahlberg
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. — H. L. Mencken
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. — Oscar Wilde
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it… — F. H. Bradley

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