Suffering quotations

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◆ Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

- Jane Austen99

◆ There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.

- John O'Donohue99

◆ but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. After a long time, she came to the conclusion that men brought only pain, frustration, suffering and a sense of time dragging.

- Paulo Coelho99

◆ Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism.

- Albert Camus99

◆ There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

- Katerina Stoykova Klemer99

◆ Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

- Lynsay Sands99

◆ She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

- Betty Smith99

◆ The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

- Bill Hicks99

◆ No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.

- Orson F. Whitney99

◆ Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.

- James Frey99

◆ Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

- Santosh Kalwar99

◆ When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

- Alexandre Dumas99

◆ Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

- Albert Schweitzer99

◆ I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

- John Milton99

◆ Distance is not the thing that makes us suffer, it's missing someone that's always in your mind that really makes you suffer.

- Anurag Prakash Ray99