suffering quotes

• Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? (George Sand) [joy/suffering/shame]
• . . .suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. (Charles Dickens) [suffering]
• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. (Theodore Roosevelt) [death/death/suffering]
• Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. (Theodore Roosevelt) [death/death/suffering]
• Love is suffering. One side always loves more ... (Catherine Deneuve) [love/suffering/more]
• Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. (William Wordsworth) [suffering/nature]
• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ( Aristotle) [suffering/greatness/mind]
• Suffering is part of the divine idea. (Henry Ward Beecher) [suffering]
• A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. (Edmund Burke) [pleasure/attack/suffering]
• In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. (Albert Camus) [happiness/suffering/give/consolation]
• For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. (Thomas Carlyle) [suffering]
• Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. (Thomas Carlyle) [suffering]
• Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. (Benjamin Disraeli) [suffering]
• We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. (Benjamin Disraeli) [age/future/suffering/youth]
• You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [suffering]
• To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. (Roberta Flack) [find/suffering]
• Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. (Anatole France) [suffering/value/life/pity]
• Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [suffering]
• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. (Mahatma Gandhi) [suffering/consumption/civilization & progress/disease]
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. (Helen Keller) [character/suffering]
• Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Helen Keller) [suffering]
• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. (Karl Kraus) [war/suffering]
• Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery. (Katherine Mansfield) [life/change/suffering/love]
• The suffering of either sex -- of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong initiating or patriarchal role that is still demanded of him, or of the female who has been given too much freedom of movement as a child to stay placidly within the house as an adult -- this suffering, this discrepancy, this sense of failure in an enjoined role, is the point of leverage for social change. (Margaret Mead) [suffering/sex/take/role]
• Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists. (Henry Miller) [men/suffering/literature/art]
• We are suffering from too much sarcasm. (Marianne Moore) [suffering]
• Christianity makes suffering contagious. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [suffering]
• To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide. (Cesare Pavese) [defense/suffering/nature/advantage]
• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next. (Cesare Pavese) [suffering/god/suffering/thing]
• Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. (John Ruskin) [spirit/suffering/spirit/wish]
• Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. (John Ruskin) [suffering/mind/salvation/faith]

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