Famous Suffering Quotes in English with Images

But penance need not be paid in suffering… It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.

In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.

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.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

- Henri-Frederic Amiel Quotes

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.

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

So long as the little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

- Suffering Quotes by Isadore Duncan Download or Share

To perceive is to suffer.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

- Suffering Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights.

- Suffering Quotes by Victor Hugo Download or Share

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.