| Author |
Quotes |
| Aesop | The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. |
| Albert Camus | 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. |
| Bible | And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. |
| Bible | I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. |
| Heinrich Suso | Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. |
| Hesiod | Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. |
| Jean Jacques Rousseau | I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. |
| Marcel Proust | We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | It requires more courage to suffer than to die. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense. |
| Robert Lynd | It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. |
| Roberta Flack | To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. |
| Thomas Holcroft | Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue? |
| Thomas Holcroft | Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. |
| Titus Livy | Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. |
| W Somerset Maugham | It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. |
| William Faulkner | The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. |
| Woody Allen | The only way to be happy is to love to suffer. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death. |
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