SUFFERING QUOTES V

quotations about suffering

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.

HOMER

The Odyssey

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You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering.

CESARE PAVESE

This Business of Living, October 5, 1938

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One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

WILLIAM STYRON

Darkness Visible

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If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.

GEORGE ELIOT

Felix Holt

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Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

SAUL BELLOW

"The Sealed Treasure", It All Adds Up

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You know, my dear, you're wrong that suffering ennobles people.... It simply makes one cross.

GREGORY BENFORD

"Nooncoming", In Alien Flesh

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Seek not life's jewels where the poppies grow,
Nor where Desire, all passion-poisoned, rears
Her luring domes, but in the heart of woe,
With shores far washed by sanctifying tears.

EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR

"Life's Jewels"

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To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan.

THOMAS GRAY

Odes on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

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Nothing brings suffering as does
the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart.
That heart brings suffering.

GAUTAMA BUDDHA

Anguttara Nikaya

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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.

C. S. LEWIS

The Problem of Pain

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Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

ANNE RICE

Memnoch the Devil

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Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Learn to bear suffering, and it shall bear thee.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart

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Sometimes the only way around suffering is to go straight through it.

ANONYMOUS

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Some people seem to be born to suffer.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

Easter

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In this house of suffering
I gotta let some joy in

BAD BRAINS

"House of Suffering"


Suffering must be the inevitable tariff exacted from spirit for residing in human form.

MARK FROST

The List of Seven

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Complete success alienates a man from his fellows, but suffering makes kinsmen of us all.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible

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When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

BERTOLT BRECHT

"When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain"

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