SUFFERING QUOTES IV

quotations about suffering

All suffering contorts the countenance so woefully that the pain flies to the beholder likewise.

JAMES VILA BLAKE

Essays


No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Those who have experienced traumatic events speak about their profound realizations of the importance of kindness, the power of love and their appreciation for what remains. It appears that this level of insight often comes from suffering.

DANA LIGHTMAN

Power Optimism

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To rest in your own suffering
Is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

T. S. ELIOT

The Family Reunion

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Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.

ERNIE J. ZELINSKI

The Lazy Person's Guide to Happiness

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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

JACK LONDON

The Star Rover

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Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

EPICTETUS

Discourses

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Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Unpopular Essays

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

HONORE DE BALZAC

Père Goriot

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Sick system built on suffering
Sick system built on pain
It's a bullet in the head
Of every happy boy and girl

NASUM

"Sick System"


The best fruit loads the broken bough;
And in the wounds our sufferings plow,
Immortal love sows sovereign seed.

GERALD MASSEY

"The Ballad of Babe Christabel"

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Troubles come to us like mire and filth; but, when mingled with the soil, they change to flower and fruit.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Affliction is a spiritual physic for the soul, and is compared to a furnace, for as gold is tried and purified therein, so men are proved and either purified from their dross, and fitted for good uses, or else entirely burnt up and undone forever.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.

CYRIL CONNOLLY

The Unquiet Grave

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The public's spirit of solidarity in face of suffering is heartening and reminds us of our common humanity.

DIPTI PARDESHI

"Refugee Week: British solidarity in the face of suffering", The London Economic, June 25, 2017


In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal.

STEFAN ZWEIG

Beware of Pity

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Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.

AMERICAN PROVERB


Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

RAM DASS

One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life


Suffering is the crucible where real faith is born.

RAM DASS

One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life


The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

MAILE MELOY

"The Proxy Marriage", The New Yorker, May 21, 2012

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