Suffering Quotes

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Struggle, Justice, Human

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.
Helen Keller

Success, Experience, Character

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

Scars, Characters, Souls

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

Life, Health, Death

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Live, Find, Meaning

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

Waiting, Knowing, Forgetting

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller

Full, Overcoming

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

Great, Beautiful, Mind

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

Heart, Means, Survival

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Freedom, Pain, Rock

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

Full, Overcoming, Although

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
Miguel Angel Ruiz

Nothing, Reality, Others

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Angelina Jolie

Life, Pain, Mistakes

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm

Life, Love, Morning

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho

Fear, Heart, Dream

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

Human, Silence, Silent

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Someone, Friend, Joy

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Paul Tournier

Life, Struggle, Nothing

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

Death, Giving, Living

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Love, Knowledge

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

Death, Same, Absence

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
Nelson Mandela

Hope, Future, Human

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
Ben Okri

Love, Create, Greater

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Sigmund Freud

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus

Knowledge, Mind, Find

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer

Yourself, Sight, Spare

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
Charles Stanley

Life, Truth, Fear

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx

Pain, Physical, Mental

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato

Fear, Afraid, Injustice

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Life, Loneliness, Full

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