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Quotes About Suffering

Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom
~ Louis Menand
It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.
~ Mahmoud Abbas
For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
~ Virginia Woolf, The Waves
But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.
~ Robert E. Lee
Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.
~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.
~ Stephen Marche
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
~ Bob Marley
Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?
~ Greg Giraldo
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.
~ Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Loving the person that doesn't love you isn't wrong...its just painful.
~ Unknown
If you are weak, suffering will follow you wherever you go. You will never find happiness if you don't challenge your weaknesses and change yourself from within.
~ Unknown
Those who are not aware of the real and limitless resources lying dormant within human life are deprived, and this self-deprivation is the cause of suffering.
~ Unknown
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting.
~ Paul Monette
People who love themselves, don't hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
~ Unknown
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts.
~ Leslie Nielsen
Wanting to end your life while you are alive is worst than death it self!
~ Unknown
People are afraid of death yet it's life which is more painful.
~ Unknown
Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all
~ Heinrich Heine
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
~ Havelock Ellis
Immortality - a fate worse than death.
~ Unknown