SUFFERING QUOTES V

quotations about suffering


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No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.

HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

JACK LONDON

The Star Rover

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To rest in your own suffering
Is evasion of suffering. We must learn to suffer more.

T. S. ELIOT

The Family Reunion

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But when that we speak of suffering, we do not speak of a dull and neglected suffering, but of a wise and industrious suffering, which draweth and contriveth use and advantage out of that which seemeth adverse and contrary; which is that properly which we call accommodating or applying. Now the wisdom of application resteth principally in the exact and distinct knowledge of the precedent state or disposition, unto which we do apply; for we cannot fit a garment except we first take measure of the body.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

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It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

JACQUELINE CAREY

Kushiel's Dart

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To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan.

THOMAS GRAY

Odes on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

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When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, he allows it to spill all over the people around him. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.

THICH NHAT HANH

Anger

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Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Learn to bear suffering, and it shall bear thee.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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There would be far less suffering amongst mankind, if men -- and God knows why they are so fashioned -- did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Sorrows of Young Werther

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Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

ANNE RICE

Memnoch the Devil

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When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.

BERTOLT BRECHT

"When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain"

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

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words

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One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune

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Troubles come to us like mire and filth; but, when mingled with the soil, they change to flower and fruit.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

WILLIAM STYRON

Darkness Visible

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A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

ADA LEVERSON

Bird of Paradise

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As long as one suffers one lives.

GRAHAM GREENE

The End of the Affair

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Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

LATIN PROVERB


Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

RAM DASS

One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life