Accepted Quote by Lesley Hazleton

“Forgetting what it’s like to suffer can be a good thing, since suffering can make people too cutthroat for society’s good. But suffering also…

— Ben Ryder Howe

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource…

— Kofi Annan

Our suffering comes from our attachment to people and things, our repeated attempts to find something lasting where there is nothing lasting to be…

— Philip Martin

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

— Leonard Cohen

Suffering presents us with a challenge: to find our goals and purpose in our lives that make even the worst situation worth living through.

— Viktor E. Frankl

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

— Dean Koontz

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away…

— Paulo Coelho

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

— Susan Sontag

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.

— Anonymous

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

— Elie Wiesel

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it

— Helen Keller