Suffering Quotes

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

"Wisdom comes through suffering."

Aeschylus

"Suffering – no matter how multiplied – is always individual."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning."

Viktor Frankl

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

"No mud, no lotus."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men."

Seneca

"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."

Felicia Hemans

"God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why they suffer."

Ramakrishna

"What is to give light must endure burning."

Viktor Frankl

"War is hell."

William Tecumseh Sherman

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.”

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.”

“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world; that is something you are free to do. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”

“Suffering is the positive element in this world; indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.”

“Too much self-centred attitude brings isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centred attitude is the source of suffering.”

“Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.”

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

“I teach only suffering and the cessation of suffering.”

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”