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| About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along | | W. H. Auden | |
| And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they, too, go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of villainy and wrong; and I must abide by my award - let them abide by theirs. | | Plato | |
| Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough | | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it. | | Alfred Adler | |
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| I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
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| Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. | | Robert Fulghum | |
| Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. | | Aristotle | |
| Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. | | Horace | |
| Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Romans 5:3-4). | | Bible | |
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| The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. | | Edmund Burke | |
| The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. | | Confucius | |
| There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present. | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | |
| Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians | | Marcel Proust | |
