Quotes
Quotes about Suffering
And poets by their sufferings grow,--
As if there were no more to do,
To make a poet excellent,
But only want and discontent.
To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.
Yet tears to human suffering are due;
And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown
Are mourned by man, and not by man alone.
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they [the Colonies] raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,--a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong:
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
O suffering, sad humanity!
O ye afflicted ones, who lie
Steeped to the lips in misery,
Longing, yet afraid to die,
Patient, though sorely tried!
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Her suffering ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away
In statue-like repose.
Whence comes solace? Not from seeing,
What is doing, suffering, being;
Not from noting Life's conditions,
Not from heeding Time's monitions;
But in cleaving to the Dream
And in gazing at the Gleam
Whereby gray things golden seem.
The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
On our earth we can truly love only with suffering and through suffering! We know not how to love otherwise. We know no other love. I want suffering in order to love.
Man is a living soul who must be tested in suffering and death
Yes, I was a fool, but I was in love, and though I was suffering the greatest misery I had ever known I would not have had it otherwise for all the riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and such are lovers wherever love is known.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming it.
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small haemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
Absence and death are the same--only that in death there is no suffering.
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.
