Suffering Quotes

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
One must choose in life between boredom and suffering. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. View quote
Helen Keller
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level. View quote
Norman Mailer
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. View quote
Carl Jung
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. View quote
Marcel Proust
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. View quote
Diana, Princess of Wales
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (W. Somerset Maugham)
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity. View quote
Jane Goodall
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. View quote
Jane Austen
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering, I feel like I am a little cruel. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. View quote
Kurt Cobain
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. View quote
Ben Okri
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. View quote
Paulo Coelho
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. (Paulo Coelho)
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. View quote
Angelina Jolie
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. View quote
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