Suffering Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“As if pity is, as he has been taught, not a helpless outcry but a powerful tide that could redeem the world...”

— John Updike

“We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“Hearken to my story. Listen but do not pity me. For pity is intended for the weak and I am still strong in my…

— Khalil Gibran

“I’ve never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion. We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn’t matter. Life…

— Randy Pausch

“And so does pity lead straight to disaster.”

— Naomi Novik

“we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.”

— Emily Brontë

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within…

— Anwar Sadat

“Sometimes, self-pity was so ingrained in people that nothing could persuade them to take joy out of living.”

— Mary Balogh

“Do not pity yourself. If you wallow in self-pity, life will be an endless nightmare.”

— Kafka Asagiri

“Along with the pain, an even greater Love and Compassion seemed to gently hold all the suffering of the world in an embrace.
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— Katherine Parker

“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.”

— Simone Weil

“Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer