SUFFERING QUOTES VI

quotations about suffering

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune

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But when that we speak of suffering, we do not speak of a dull and neglected suffering, but of a wise and industrious suffering, which draweth and contriveth use and advantage out of that which seemeth adverse and contrary; which is that properly which we call accommodating or applying. Now the wisdom of application resteth principally in the exact and distinct knowledge of the precedent state or disposition, unto which we do apply; for we cannot fit a garment except we first take measure of the body.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, he allows it to spill all over the people around him. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.

THICH NHAT HANH

Anger

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Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS

"The Spectre Cook of Bangletop"

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War, pain and suffering is a form of cleansing that will shock people awake.

ISMAIL ROYER

"Fourteen years ago, he was a convicted jihadist. Now he's fighting radical Islam steps from the White House.", Washington Post, July 7, 2017


As long as one suffers one lives.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair

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It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed

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Suffering is a lesson the Soul needs in order to get to its Beloved. Joy is too.

RAM DASS

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


Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

RAM DASS

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


There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men -- and God knows why they are so fashioned -- did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

LATIN PROVERB


Life is suffering
Tee-hee, ha-ha
Life is suffering
Tee-hee, ha-ha
Cold and shuddering
Tee-hee, ha-ha
Cruel and pummeling
Tee-hee, ha-ha
Smile on little buddha, smile on
Little buddha, smile on
It's only illusion then it's gone

TOAD THE WET SPROCKET

"Little Buddha"


Let a man live but two or three years without Affliction, and he is almost good for nothing.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

Tender Is the Night

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The wound is the place where light enters you.

RUMI

attributed, Wild Essence: Return to the Peace & Freedom of Your Inner Wilderness


Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

GRAHAM GREENE

The Quiet American

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Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

AESCHYLUS

fragment


Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

The Dispossessed


Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

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