Suffering Quotes

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

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.

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.[Du kannst dich zurückhalten von den Leiden der Welt, das ist dir freigestellt und entspricht deiner Natur, aber vielleicht ist gerade dieses Zurückhalten das einzige Leid, das du vermeiden könntest.]

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.]

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.[Das Leiden ist das positive Element dieser Welt, ja es ist die einzige Verbindung zwischen dieser Welt und dem Positiven.]

Suffering and death are the great teachers of mankind.

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.

On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.[На нашей земле мы истинно можем любить лишь с мучением и только через мучение!]

Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.