Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
– Ovid
Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.
– Amit Ray
To perceive is to suffer.
– Aristotle
The world suffers a lot not because of the violence of the bad people but because of the silence of the good people.
Pain & suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Suffering brings experience.
– Aeschylus
Wisdom comes through suffering.
– Aeschylus
Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.
– Bella Thorne
The root of suffering is attachment.
– Buddha
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
– Dodie Smith
I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.
– Jim McDonald
I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering….
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself, and that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams.
– Paulo Coelho
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
– Hans Christian Andersen
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
– Plato
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
– Dalai Lama XIV
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
– Seneca
Suffering is not holding you. You are holding suffering. When you become good at the art of letting sufferings go, then you’ll come to realize how unnecessary it was for you to drag those burdens around with you. You’ll see that no one else other than you was responsible. The truth is that existence wants your life to become a festival.
– Osho
Suffering is universal. It’s the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
– John Green
Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.
– D. Morgenstern
Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing.
– Brad Pitt
Only through suffering do we learn.
– Aeschylus
Suffering comes from three thought patterns: loss, less, never.
– Tony Robbins
Without suffering, there’d be no compassion.
– Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
– Alexandre Dumas
The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
– John Green
If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.
– Jean Vanier
No need to suffer, no need to cry. If only we question and find out ‘why’. We can be blissful & fly in the sky.
Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness.
– Jocelyn Murray
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
– Albert Schweitzer
When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.
– Karl Marx
Sufferings don’t kill you but make you stronger.
Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don’t know how to love.
– Osho
Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.
– Santosh Kalwar
Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.
– Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.
– Allan Lokos
Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.
– Richard Paul Evans
Do not ask who has caused me to suffer but who I can help to be free from suffering.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
– Seneca
Suffering is a part of real life lesson.
– Toba Beta
Our past may explain why we’re suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.
– Joyce Meyer
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction.
– Dalai Lama
Great souls suffer in silence.
– Friedrich von Schiller
The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.
– Melvin Jules Bukiet
Suffering so someone else didn’t have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else’s well being.
– Jodi Picoult
Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.
– Eckhart Tolle
Suffering teaches joy.
– Sonia Rumzi
If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Anything was better than nothing. Half- full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
– Becca Fitzpatrick
If pain doesn’t lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.
– Katerina Stoykova Klemer
As long as one suffers one lives.
– Graham Greene
We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.
– T. Scott McLeod
When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people’s sufferings too. That’s the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
– Yoko Ono
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
– Joseph Addison
My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer.
– Paulo Coelho
The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one’s one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.
– Mary Balogh
Living is suffering, Billy. Now give your mom a nice big hug.
– Dash Shaw
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
Nothing eases suffering like human touch.
– Bobby Fischer
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth.
– Cornell West
No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can’t bring the dead back to life.
– Watsuki Nobuhiro
No one is ever holy without suffering.
– Evelyn Waugh
Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul.
– Santosh Kalwar
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
– Roland Barthes
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
– Colette
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
– Plato
No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can’t bring the dead back to life.
– Watsuki Nobuhiro
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Enough is enough, we cannot keep suffering till eternity.
– Amit Shah
What a paradox! People hate to be miserable but choose to be miserable. Remember this the next time misery arrives.
– RVM
It’s necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he’s just another bird drinking from your misery.
– Amy Tan
Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
– Jane Austen
After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?
– Nancy Farmer
Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.
– Emile Gaboriau
Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
– Simone Weil
If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
– Salma Hayek
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
– Marcel Proust
Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.
– Mike Norton
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.
– H.G. Wells
The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.
-William Faulkner
We do not suffer by accident.
– Jane Austen
Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
– Tennessee Williams
I hope suffering don’t exist.
– David Levithan
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
– Democritus
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
– Princess Diana
Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.
– Christopher McDougall
Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.
– Paulo Coelho