Edges Quote by Robert Louis Stevenson

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

— Anthony de Mello

I have suffered much; preserve my life, lord, according to your word.

— Psalm 119:107

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

— Anonymous

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

— Meister Eckhart

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

— Chad Harbach

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

— George Eliot

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

— Theodor Adorno

“To have suffered so much in a certain direction that the suffering is finished, and only its particular wisdom remains, enables one, wherever that…

— James Allen

“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning…

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

“Suffering has been greater than all other teachings. I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.”

— Charles Dickinson

“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 important. It teaches so much in a little bit of time. In much wisdom there is much grief. And those who increase…

— Jeff Wheeler