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Quotes About Suffering

I shall live forever. And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense. I don't mean I'll live forever in the hearts and minds of my readers. I mean I will literally live forever, drawing as I do from your pain and suffering. Your pain makes me strong.
~ Derek Landy
She said I'd have to die," Valkyrie answered. "Which you have already done," Nye nodded... "The truly tragic thing about all of this," it said, "is that you won't feel any of the great pain I'm about to put you through.
~ Derek Landy
You know when everyone tells you it's painful? You should really believe them." - Valkyrie "Oh, joy," he muttered. "I can't wait for mine. - Fletcher, about the Surge
~ Derek Landy
Wreath told me what the Passage is." "Oh?" "They're going to kill three billion people to stop the other three billion from ever dying.
~ Derek Landy
Valkyrie knelt, tried to pull his hand away from his shoulder. "Did he shoot you? Did he hit you?" "He damaged my jacket," Skulduggery said, but, when she managed to pull his hand away, his façade's skin was rippling and fragments of bone fell to the floor. "It's just my clavicle," he said. "I have a spare.
~ Derek Landy
"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."
~ Anwar Sadat
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
~ Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
I think if you've suffered, if you've experienced loss, you're probably more open to understanding it and more comfortable talking about it and experiencing it.
~ Anderson Cooper
For the twenty million Americans who are hungry tonight, for the homeless freezing tonight, literature is as useless as a knowledge of astronomy.
~ Andre Dubus
human desires are the main cause of suffering
~ Siddhattha Gotama Buddha
The attempt to escape from pain, is what creates more pain.
~ Gabor Mate
So sad is this that nigh to all are ignorant to the pain and death caused by the hands of evil.
~ Michelle A. Lammers, Broken
With every physical pain my moral fibre unravels a little.
~ Mason Cooley
Ignorance is bliss. Wisdom is blisters.
~ Brian Spellman
He who is attached to things will suffer much.
~ Laozi
Who are you and what breaks your heart?
~ Andy Stanley
A compassionate leader always feel motivated to bring happiness and relieve the suffering of customers, investors, suppliers, employees, government and the communities.
~ Amit Ray
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
~ W. H. Auden
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
~ Aeschylus
It is through suffering that learning comes.
~ Aeschylus
As Paul Tillich put it, suffering introduces you to yourself and reminds you that you are not the person you thought you were.
~ David Brooks
This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.
~ Ray Comfort
When life becomes painful, it means God is saying, "I have a better plan for you
~ Bo Sanchez
We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
~ Sakyong Mipham