Browsing Topic Best World Suffering Quotes

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

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.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

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

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

I don’t think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don’t think it’s one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them–as many as there are people–because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

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

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

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.

In a word, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

The salvation of the world is in man’s suffering.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.