Existence Quote by Melissa Rose Lawrence

“Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.”

— Brent Green

“Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain.”

— Peter Ackroyd

“Suffering is not avoided, and is even sought for, simply because it is the hardest thing for man to deal with, and the greatest…

— Rodney Collin

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a…

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Suffering goes beyond pain. It resides in the mind. It results from how we interpret what happens to us, not from the situation itself.”

— Robert S. Rosenthal

“Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are. Stop for a second and look at…

— Brad Warner

Suffering is nature's way of indicating a mistaken attitude or way of behavior, and to the nonegocentric person every moment of suffering is the…

— Rollo May

Suffering brings experience.

— Aeschylus

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

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

— Nancy Farmer

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

— Walter Kaufmann

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust…

— Mark Dever