Quotes on Suffering

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Author: Chinua Achebe

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Author: Christiaan Barnard

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Author: Tony Benn

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

Author: Silvia Cartwright

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Author: Paulo Coelho

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Author: Edward Dahlberg

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Author: Princess Diana

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

Author: Rainer Fassbinder

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

Author: John Galbraith

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Author: Khalil Gibran

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

Author: Felicia Hemans

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

Author: Walter Kaufmann

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

Author: Walter Kaufmann

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Author: Robert Lynd

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Author: Mary Lyon

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans.

Author: Jim McDermott

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

Author: Jason Patric

The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Author: Jean-Marie Pen

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Author: Marcel Proust

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

Author: Antoine Saint-Exupery

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

Author: Liz Smith

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Author: Patti Smith

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Author: Susan Sontag

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

Author: Henny Youngman

Adversity is the seed of strength that blooms into resilience.

Author: Sophia Thompson