Quotes on “suffering”

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.

You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.