Masochistic Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“If it is avoidable, the meaningful thing to do is to remove its cause, for unnecessary suffering is masochistic rather than heroic.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

“I only insist that meaning is possible even in spite of suffering—provided, certainly, that the suffering is unavoidable. If it were avoidable, however, the…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“doing everything ourselves isn’t heroic—it’s toxic.”

— Jancee Dunn

“To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There is something heroic about a person in struggle with herself, strained on the rack of conscience, suffering torments, yet staying alive and growing…

— David Brooks

“Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“that the endurance of suffering alone, without desire, was not sufficient to punish a fault.”

— Catherine of Siena

“even though we do not want to suffer we create our own suffering by performing non-virtuous actions.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

“...for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.”

— Orhan Pamuk

“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor…”

— Émile Gaboriau

“But surely even heroes weary lugging around the burdens of their heroism.”

— J.H. Trumble

“We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.”

— Graham Greene