Suffering Quotes

One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me…

I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

One thing you can’t hide is when you’re crippled inside.

You have to hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world: this is something you are free to do and is in accord with your nature, but perhaps precisely this holding back is the only suffering that you might be able to avoid.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

The soul expands with suffering, thus enormously increasing its capacity; what formerly filled it to the point of bursting now barely covers the bottom.[À force de s’élargir pour la souffrance, l’âme en arrive à des capacités prodigieuses; ce qui la comblait naguère à la faire crever en couvre à peine le fond maintenant.]

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Suffering and death are the great teachers of mankind.

Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.