(1382 quotes found)
“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”
Dan Millman
“A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.”
Gurdjieff
“The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.”
Albert Einstein
“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create”
Vincent van Gogh
“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
Helen Keller
“The reward of suffering is experience.”
Aeschylus
“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”
Confucius
“At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
