100 Phrases About Suffering

More than 100 Phrases of suffering Of authors like Paulo Coelho, Charles Dickens, Kahlil Gibran, Dostoyevsky or the Dalai Lama.

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1. "The only way out of the maze of suffering is to forgive." - John Green
2. "The wound is the place through which the light enters". - Rumi
3. "If the pain should come, it must come quickly, because I have a life to live and I need to live it in the best way possible." - Paulo Coelho
4. "What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
5. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And that no heart has suffered more than when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second of encounter with God and eternity. - Paulo Coelho
6. "Suffering has been the strongest of all teachings, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be." - Charles Dickens
7. "From suffering must emerge the strongest souls, the largest characters were covered with scars." - Kahlil Gibran
8. "Do you not see how necessary a world full of pain and problems is as a school for the intelligence and constitution of the soul?" - John Keats
9. "When you have suffered so much in life, every additional pain is both unbearable and insignificant." - Yann Martel
10. "Everyone is seriously treacherous at least once in their lives. It is what unites us. The trick is not to destroy trust in others when this happens. Do not let them take that away from you." - Sherrilyn Kenyon
11. "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a great intelligence and deep heart." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. "Happiness was, but the constant episode in general was the drama of pain." - Thomas Hardy
13. "Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect of pain. If someone can bear the pain, he can live without suffering. If someone can resist the pain, it will resist anything. If someone learns to control pain, they will learn to control themselves." - James Fray
14. "The best remedy for those who are fearful, alone or unhappy is to go outside, to some place where they can be quiet, alone with heaven, nature and God. Only then can they feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants to see happy people, in the midst of simple natural beauty." - Anne Frank
15. "Pain and suffering are the ground of strength and courage." - Lurlene McDaniel
16. "Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional". - M. Kathleen Casey
17. "Even though the world is full of suffering, it is also full of brave people who are overcoming it." - Hellen Keller
18. "A man who fears suffering already suffers from what he fears." - Michel de Montaigne
19. "Suffering is part of the training program to become someone wise." - Ram Dass
20. "Do not seek to advance to the day that you will stop suffering, because when that day comes, you will know that you are dead." Tennessee Williams
21. "We are never as helpless as suffering when we love." - Sigmund Freud
22. "Suffering comes when your thoughts about how things should be do not fit what they really are." - Brad Warner
23. "You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth." - Jalal Al-I Ahmad
24. "The root of suffering is fixation." Buddha
25. "God had a son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering." - San Agustin

26. "The only way love is a punishment is by suffering." - M. K. Gandhi
27. "The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." - Karl Marx
28. "Fire tests gold, suffering puts brave men to the test." Seneca
29. "Great souls suffer in silence." - Friedrich Schiller
30. "The retribution of suffering is experience." - Harry Truman
31. "Our suffering is not caused by whatever is happening to us. It is caused by the thought that whatever is happening to us should not be happening to us." - Teal Swan
32. "Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, clinging to suffering. That is a fact". - Fyodor Dostoevsky
33. "A man can not be rebuilt without suffering, for him, it is both the marble and the sculptor." - Alexis Carrel
34. "Success and suffering are vital and organically linked. If you achieve success without suffering, it is because someone probably suffered for you; If you suffer without success, it means that someone else will succeed after you." - Edward Judson
35. "Suffering is one of the great masters of life." Bryant H. McGill
36. "Suffering is the true cement of love." - Paul Sabatier
37. "The more you try to evade suffering, the more you will suffer." - Thomas Mercon
38. "The joy over our joy and not suffer over our suffering, makes someone a friend." - Friedrich Nietzsche
39. "The Bible does not sweeten pain and suffering, it gives you something to pass through." - Jud Wilhite
40. "If an election were given to him between suffering, death, and living the past years again, who would not shudder and choose death?" - Augustine
41. "I love the majesty of human suffering." - Alfred de Vigny
42. "Life is full of misery, loneliness and suffering, and all this ends too soon." - Woody Allen
43. "Suffering is due to disconnection with the inner soul, meditation establishes that connection." - Amit Ray
44. "I am afraid of one thing in my life, being unworthy of my sufferings." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
45. "People take a long time to let go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer to suffer with what is familiar." - Thich Nhat Hanh
46. "The waiting is painful, forgetfulness is painful. But not knowing what to do is the worst kind of pain." - Paulo Coelho
47. "Suffering is nothing in itself, but suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a symbol of love." - Mother Teresa
48. "Without pain there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes". - Angelina Jolie
49. "You can suffer the pain of change or suffer from staying the way you are." - Joyce Meyer
50. "There is no victory without suffering." - J. R. R. Tolkien

51. "Suffering is a grace, through suffering the soul becomes wiser, in suffering love crystallizes, the greatest suffering is the purest love." - Mary Faustina Kowalska
52. "The truth is that everyone is going to hurt you. You just have to find those that are worth suffering for." - Bob Marley
53. "The pain is physical, the suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but no one forces you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to attachment or resistance, it is a sign of our reluctance to continue and to flow in life." - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
54. "The only thing that teaches us suffering is that we are capable of suffering." - Melvin Jules Bukiet
55. "The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people." - Napoleon
56. "The Greek word for 'return' is nostos. Algos means 'suffering'. Then the word nostalgia is the suffering generated by an unsatisfied yearning on return." - Milan Kudera
57. "I believe that all suffering is caused by ignorance." - 14th Dalai Lama
58. "Suffering, if it is not diminished by love, will carry us to the nearest shore." - Gautana Buddha
59. "Never stop for feeling defeated. The journey to the other side is possible only after great suffering." - Santosh Kalwar
60. "It is at the limits of pain and suffering that men are separated from children." - Emil Zatopek
61. "What we suffer now is not compared to the glory that He will reveal to us later." - Romans 8:18
62. "Absence and death are the same, only in death there is no suffering." - Theodore Roosevelt
63. "All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you are unhappy where you are, move." - Timothy Leary
64. "Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, that is why suffering alone makes us people." - Miguel de Unamuno
65. "The seed of suffering within you may be strong, but do not expect to be surrounded by more suffering to be happy." Thich Naht Hanh
66. "Suffering is a positive element in the world. In fact it is the only link between this world and the positive." Franz Kafka
67. "Suffering is a gift. In him is pity concealed." Rumi
68. "Suffering is not enough. Life is just as terrible as it is wonderful." - Thich Naht Hanh
69. "Do not avoid suffering. You have to go through it to get where you're going." - Katherine Ann Porter
70. "Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, if you have joy or if you are suffering." - Mark Driscoll
71. "It is by suffering that human beings become angels." - Victor Hugo
72. "Another word for life is change. Other words for suffering are to resist change." Michael Jeffreys
73. "Do what you can on this plane to alleviate suffering, constantly working on yourself to be an instrument of cessation of suffering."- Ram Dass
74. "A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith." - Richard Wurmbrand
75. "Everything is perfect in the creation of God. Ignorance and suffering only exist in the minds of people."

76. "Each of us has its own rhythm of suffering." - Roland Barthes
77. "The more you think that the cause of your suffering is"out there,"the more you think someone or something is responsible for your suffering, the more hopeless the situation will be. This means that you will always be in the role of victim, that you are suffering in paradise." Byron Katie
78. "There are some wounds that can only heal by deepening and worsening them." - Villiers de L'Isle
79. "No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can not bring the dead back to life." - Nobuhiro Watsuki
80. "God created us free, free to be selfish, but He included a mechanism that penetrates our egoism and awakens us to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering." - William Nicholson
81. "It is painfully easy to define humans. There are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering." - Natsume Söseki
82. "Poor God, how often he is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all good things to happen." - E.A. Bucchianeri
83. "The one who waits for someone who waits for no one is more suffering." - Pablo Neruda
84. "Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the suffering of others, it would not make them suffer so much." - Anna Funder
85. "Our vision is so limited that we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection of suffering." - Elisabeth Elliot
86. "The only way to avoid suffering could be to refuse to love." - Paulo Coelho
87. "You do not need to suffer to know the suffering, but you need empathy to identify the feeling of suffering of those around you." - Suzy Kassem
88. "There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we receive it." - Stephen Levine
89. "Suffering stinks. Do not do it. Go home and love your wife. Go home and love yourself. Go home and base your happiness on one thing: freedom. Choose freedom, not suffering." - Laura Munson
90. "I think the function of suffering is to make me know that my perception is distorted." - Hubert Selby Jr.
91. "Sometimes it takes great suffering to penetrate the soul and open it to greatness." - Jocelyn Murray
92. "If you have done something meritorious, you will experience pleasure and happiness; If they are wrong, you will suffer." - Swami Satchidananda
93. "Those who do not know how to suffer are the worst. There are times when the only right thing we can do is endure the problems until a better day." - Ming-Dao Deng
94. "If you are waiting for something to live and love without reservations, then you will suffer." - David Deida
95. "Everyone knows ice cream is worth it when it's cold. Like all virtuous things, you have to suffer to earn the reward." - Brandon Sanderson
96. "I have not suffered so much for Christ, but I want to say that all those times I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, I have had some of the happiest moments of my life." - Adrian Rogers
97. "Any discussion of pain and suffering leads to God's scheme that ultimately brings us back to the cross." - Philip Yancey
98. "Big and small suffer the same setbacks." - Blaise Pascal
99. "They have promised us sufferings. They were part of the program. We were told 'Blessed are those who suffer'. - C. S. Lewis
100. "The clever way to escape our sufferings is to be willing to endure until God wills." - John Wesley