quotations about suffering
Complete success alienates a man from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all.
ELBERT HUBBARD
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The American Bible
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
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
LATIN PROVERB
One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.
WILLIAM STYRON
Darkness Visible
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"
Some people seem to be born to suffer.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
Easter
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Unpopular Essays
Let a man live but two or three years without Affliction, and he is almost good for nothing.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.
MARK FROST
The List of Seven
In this house of suffering
I gotta let some joy in
BAD BRAINS
"House of Suffering"
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
ADA LEVERSON
Bird of Paradise
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living, October 5, 1938
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
Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Suttree
The suffering's here
The wait is gone
The streets are filled
With a hollow song
Got a new death
It lurks outside
Follows me home
DANZIG
"End of Time"
The taste of life disappears.
The flavour of all the years.
Breath is flying away.
Life is ending today.
No more suffering.
WAR AGAINST SLEEP
"Suffering"
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
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
AESCHYLUS
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Pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional.
AMERICAN PROVERB
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