Suffering Quotes - page 2

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. (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. View quote
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. (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.
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is "AUTHENTICITY." View quote
Charlie Chaplin
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. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
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. (Frank Luntz)
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is. View quote
Christiaan Barnard
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. View quote
Christiaan Barnard
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
If one doesn't learn from one's unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, "what's the point of all that suffering? View quote
Lin Carter