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Suffering  Quotes
I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are with it, the less likely you are to have a breakdown when it...

—Criss Jami

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The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

—Brennan Manning

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There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

—Alan Watts

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Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.

—Emil Dorian

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Most of our suffering comes from avoidance.

—Naval Ravikant

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One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one’s words much.

—Charlotte Brontë

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Learning comes from books; penetration of a mystery from suffering.

—Fulton J. Sheen

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When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long ’till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother’s curse?

—T.H. White

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But he’d also gotten a personal prickly chill all over from his own thinking. He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. No one single instant of it was unendurable. Here was a...

—David Foster Wallace

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We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

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We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the...

—Hans Ulrich

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I envy these people. Wide-open suffering, their messes all hanging out. Lives boiled down to raw need–a near-holiness to it. And all of us driving our cars up and down the mountain–we’ll go on forever...

—Jamie Quatro

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She enjoyed her own pain by this egoism of suffering, if I may so express it. This aggravation of suffering and this rebelling in it I could understand; it is the enjoyment of man, of...

—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o’ aught on earth. He thought God could na be harder than men; mappen not so hard; mappen as tender as a mother; mappen tenderer....

—Elizabeth Gaskell

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Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to...

—James Frey

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In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we...

—Dean Koontz

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Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one’s capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one’s greatness.

—Lily Koppel

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Walk through pain, face it, lay down in it and rest. Get up and walk again, repeat until you reach the end.

—Juls Amor

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Faith can be stirred within the walls of church buildings, but faith is formed and nourished in the waiting rooms of hospitals, helplessly witnessing a thirty-one-year-old sister suffer, holding kids affected by the AIDS epidemic,...

—Josh Ross

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You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt no sorrow or guilt after the act; those so obsessed with themselves that...

—John Connolly

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Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character?

—K. Howard

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Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas

—Langston Hughes

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This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn’t seem to like...

—kandi dougherty

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The trouble with this dog is that it has grown too close to human beings, it will suffer as they do.

—José Saramago

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…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling...

—Lydia Millet

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…it’s always somebody’s fault – I blame you for my helpless love – do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me…

—John Geddes

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You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

—Nisargadatta Maharaj

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My pain builds like storm clouds―massive, dark, and heavy with teardrops. Moisture falls torrential as if my world is a violent, eternal downpour; however, at long last the source runs dry and the bitter storm...

—Richelle E.

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Do you know what it is?’ [Toby] said thoughtfully. ‘It’s that they haven’t had anything really awful happen to them. No wonder they seem so superficial and unfeeling.’ It was certainly an interesting theory, …...

—Michelle Cooper

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But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.

—Thornton Wilder

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The question was whether an ape which was being used to develop a poliomyelitis serum, and for this reason punctured again and again, would ever be able to grasp the meaning of its suffering. Unanimously,...

—Viktor E.

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We have a choice. We can spend our whole life suffering because we can’t relax with how things really are, or we can relax and embrace the open-endedness of the human situation, which is fresh,...

—Pema Chödrön

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For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

—Paul Farmer

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We are not a voice for the voiceless. The truth is that there is a lot of noise out there drowning out quiet voices, and many people have stopped listening to the cries of their...

—Shane Claiborne

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…if a thing can be said to be, to exist, then such is the nature of these expansive times that this thing which is must suffer to be touched. Ours is a time of connection;...

—Tony Kushner

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As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon realized that perhaps that main reason was affliction and suffering. …But at the...

—Timothy Keller

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This of course no problem. People are suffering all around the world, and I’m fine whatever I do and wherever I am.

—Greta Thunberg

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The themes that exercised the minds of survivor movements and their allies within the health and welfare professions generated a political project: how to revolutionise medical and judicial approaches to injured adults and children, how...

—Beatrix Campbell

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Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it – and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness;...

—Adalbert Stifter

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When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity...

—Arthur W. Pink

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All suffering has an end, David, if only you wait long enough. Sorrow has its life like people. Sorrow is born and lives and dies. And when it’s dead and gone, someone’s left behind to...

—Anne Holm

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— This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.—Who knows it better?—Yet you believe?Kumalo looked at him under the light of the lamp. I believe, he said, but I have learned that it is a secret....

—Alan Paton

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That is the idea — that we should all be wicked if we did not hold to the Christian religion. It seems to me that the people who have held to it have been for...

—Bertrand Russell

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scraps” that the abusive priests treated us like. They would use us as a scrap is used and then simply toss us aside. I was moved to tears. Holding it in my hands, I could...

—Charles L.

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For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is— limited and suffering and subject to sorrows and death—He had the honesty and the courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He is...

—Dorothy L. Sayers

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Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.

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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

—Dodie Smith

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Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.

—Eknath Easwaran

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The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.

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No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

—Elfriede Jelinek

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