Anguish Quote by George Eliot

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

— Ira Gershwin

The word suffering is full and whole and perfect as a pierced heart, sweet, rushing and tender ... Suffering is the joy of someone…

— Lydia Millet

Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.

— Eckhart Tolle

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

— Maya Tiwari

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes…

— Marcel Proust

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

— Ramana Maharshi

Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when…

— Mike Mason

What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of…

— Mother Teresa

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

— Michael Pollan

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

— Suzanne Segal

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

— Anonymous