Indignation Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

— Marcus Thomas

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.

— Brad Warner

I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

— J. I. Packer

Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

— Suzanne Segal

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

— Evelyn Waugh

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

— Anonymous

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference,…

— Honore de Balzac

Suffering is an illusion.

— Gautama Buddha

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering. I know that pain is to be fought and thrown…

— Ayn Rand