Suffering Quotes - page 2

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. (Susan Sontag)
What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect. View quote
Ernest Renan
Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill. View quote
Betty Friedan
They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. View quote
Katherine Anne Porter
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. View quote
Woody Allen
Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity. View quote
Mother Teresa
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. View quote
Bob Marley
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. (Anatole France)
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile. View quote
H. G. Wells
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. View quote
Emil Zátopek
Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. View quote
Robert Orben
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. (Honoré de Balzac)
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. View quote
Aristotle
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear. View quote
Frank Luntz
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. View quote
Christiaan Barnard
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