Suffering Quotes

"The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life."

Christiaan Barnard

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

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

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

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

Kahlil Gibran

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

Viktor Frankl

“No mud, no lotus.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“He who learns must suffer.”

Aeschylus

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.”

“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me.”

The Bible (Job 3:25)