67 Suffering Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing suffering Quotes and Sayings.
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Short Suffering Sayings
“To perceive is to suffer.” —Aristotle
“Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.” —Bryant H. McGill
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.” —Marcel Proust
“In suffering we find our truest selves.” —Jessie Burton
“It is the lot of man to suffer.” —Benjamin Disraeli
“The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.” —Helen Keller
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” —Haruki Murakami
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.” —Marcel Proust
“The reward of suffering is experience.” —Harry S Truman
“Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.” —Roland Barthes
“If you suffer, thank God! – it is a sure sign that you are alive.” —Elbert Hubbard
“Pain is never permanent.” —Teresa of Avila
“If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights.” —Victor Hugo
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.” —Aeschylus
“The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.” —William Faulkner
“It is by suffering that human beings become angels.” —Victor Hugo
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.” —Michel de Montaigne
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.” —Deepak Chopra
“One must really have suffered oneself to help others.” —Mother Teresa
“No one is ever holy without suffering.” —Evelyn Waugh
“People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” —Chuck Palahniuk
“Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.” —Oscar Wilde
“A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.” —Jules Renard
“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.” —Marcel Proust
“If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.” —Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.” —Mike Norton
“You can’t drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.” —Unknown
“To become a spectator of one’s own life is to escape the suffering of life.” —Oscar Wilde
“For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.” —Thomas Carlyle
“One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor.” —De Casseres
Suffering Sayings
“A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.” —Dalai Lama
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” —Bob Marley
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” —George Lucas
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I thank everyone that has caused me to suffer, without you I would have no reason to express myself.” —Unknown
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“The cause of our suffering is not what we do, but the way we perceive.” —Rodney Smith
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.” —Samuel Johnson
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.” —Winston Churchill
“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.” —John Calvin
“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.” —Elie Wiesel
“We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.” —Edward Dahlberg
“I forgive myself completely for having created stories of suffering.” —Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.” —Miguel de Unamuno
“When you’ve suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.” —Yann Martel
“The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.” —Stevie Wonder
“A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.” —Seneca the Younger
“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.” —Susan Sontag
“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.” —Chinua Achebe
“The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.” —Brennan Manning
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” —Helen Keller
“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.” —Emile M. Cioran
“Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.” —Katherine Mansfield
Top Ten Suffering Sayings
Here you will find top ten suffering sayings selected by our team
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” —Khalil Gibran
- “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” —Bob Marley
- “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “If you suffer, thank God! – it is a sure sign that you are alive.” —Elbert Hubbard
- “I thank everyone that has caused me to suffer, without you I would have no reason to express myself.” —Unknown
- “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” —Haruki Murakami
- “The reward of suffering is experience.” —Harry S Truman
- “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
- “A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.” —Dalai Lama
