Quote by Franz Kafka

“even though we do not want to suffer we create our own suffering by performing non-virtuous actions.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“If it were necessary either to do wrong or to suffer it, I should choose to suffer rather than do it.”

— Plato

“Since I myself never wish to suffer and always want to be happy, I must abandon and purify my non-virtuous actions and sincerely perform…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

“Its better you make suffer yourself instead of making others to suffer , it's justified.”

— Jitendra Anne

“It is said that we do not make the guilty party suffer for the sake of suffering; it is nonetheless true that we find…

— Émile Durkheim

“4 the first time, I will avoid anything that makes me suffer, because suffering is not a virtue.. I will not complain about life,…

— Paulo Coelho

“Let your intention be freedom from useless suffering. Then, let go.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

“So many people suffer because they choose to suffer. Pain comes to us all, but suffering is a choice.”

— E.J. Squires

“it seemed to him that no matter what evils a man had committed, making him suffer purely for the sake of suffering was pointless.…

— Kim Fielding

“I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.”

— Marcel Proust

“...and if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.”

— Hannah Arendt