Suffering Quotes

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you:
you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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

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.

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.

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

The moral decline we are compelled to witness and the suffering it engenders are so oppressive that one cannot ignore them even for a moment. No matter how deeply one immerses oneself in work, a haunting feeling of inescapable tragedy persists. Still, there are moments when one feels free from one’s own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable: life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only being.

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.

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.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them