Quotes About Suffering

Look - can't you see? The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past iol Stray his course and cooud his heart; Sorrow takes the blind soul's part-- Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

Zeus, whose will has marked for man The sole way where wisdom lies; Ordered one eternal plan: Man must suffer to be wise. Head-winds heavy with past ill Stray his course and cloud his heart: Sorrow takes the blind soul's part - Man grows wise against his will. For powers who rule from thrones above By ruthlessness commend their love.

Let there be less suffering . . . give us the sense to live on what we need.

The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives By suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, Nothing tells us how things really are, Nothing forces us to know What we do not what to know Except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love. Truth comes with pain.

I have suffered into truth (...) Time refines all things that age with time

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering

ESORAIS M' HOS EKDIKA PASKHO!

Look at him, look how he drips unhealth—shudder object!

No mortal can complete his life unharmed and unpunished throughout--ah ah! Some troubles are here now, some will come later. Chorus, Aeschylus' Eumenides from the Oresteia

No dreams, these torments, not to me, they're clear, real - the hounds of mother's hate.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

Time shell be the limit of my suffering.

He has opened the way of wisdom to mortals, by proclaiming as a sovereign law: By suffering comes understanding

Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

Pain is imperative. Therefore, endure your suffering silently.

I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.

Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.

Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

Wherever the mind has a lot of attachment, we will experience intense suffering, intense grief, intense difficulty right there. The place we experience the most problems is the place we have the most attraction, longing and concern. Please try to resolve this. Now, while you still have life and breath, keep on looking at it and reading it until you are able to 'translate' it and solve the problem.

Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice. -Paul Wellstone (Minnesota Senator, Al Franken predecessor)

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.