Suffering Quotes and Sayings
Without suffering, there’d be no compassion.
- Nicholas Sparks
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
-William Faulkner
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.
- D. Morgenstern
Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.
- Émile Gaboriau
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering so someone else didn’t have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else’s well being.
- Jodi Picoult
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
- Bobby Fischer
Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.
- Eckhart Tolle
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.
- Bryant McGill
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
- T. Scott McLeod
We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.
- T. Scott McLeod
After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?
- Nancy Farmer
Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness.
- Jocelyn Murray
Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
- John Green
Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.
- Amit Ray
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
- H.G. Wells
As long as one suffers one lives.
- Graham Greene
It’s necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
- Natalie Clifford Barney