Quotes About Suffering

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

Experience cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently.

You will suffer and you will hurt. You will have joy and you will have peace.

Pain is part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily unbearable, and we need to be taught that.

Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

Angling is an innocent cruelty.

For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise.

The happiness of any given life is to be measured not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering, from positive evil.

We are content to forgo joy when pain is also lost.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

A picket frozen on duty - A mother starved for her brood - Socrates drinking the hemlock, And Jesus on the rood; And millions who, humble and nameless, The straight, hard pathway trod - Some call it Consecration, And others call it God.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions, and composed our masterpieces. Never will the world know all it owes to them, nor all they have suffered to enrich us.

No pleasure without pain.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all pains, the greatest pain it is to love, but love in vain.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Hell is indefinite.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.