(1381 quotes found)
“What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Writing eases my suffering... writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.”
Gao Xingjian
“Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.”
Anatole France
“Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. Do to us what you will and we shall continue to love you.”
“The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales”
Aesop
“Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.”
Corazon Aquino
“What makes one heroic? -- Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.”
“One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.”
D.H. Lawrence
