Suffering Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

46 Suffering Quotes
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“For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Source: The Cenci (act III, sc. 1)
“Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes
Source: Julian and Maddalo (l. 494)
“Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?”
Sarah Williams ("Saidie") Quotes
Source: Is it so, O Christ in Heaven? (st. 3)
“He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer.”
William Wordsworth Quotes
Source: Excursion (I, 370)
“Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.”
Heinrich Suso Quotes
“The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.”
Aesop Quotes
“In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.”
Albert Camus Quotes
“The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.”
Woody Allen Quotes
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Roberta Flack Quotes
“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 Quotes
“What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.”
Seneca Quotes
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.”
Marcel Proust Quotes
“It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.”
Robert Lynd Quotes
“If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.”
Elbert Hubbard Quotes
“I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).”
Unknown Quotes
“Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).”
Unknown Quotes
“How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
“The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.”
William Faulkner Quotes
“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”
Aristotle Quotes