It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.
We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.
It takes suffering to widen the soul.
There's a lot of pain and suffering out there. I think there needs to be more joy, and love, and orgasms in the world. We are a pleasure-negati ve society. Suffering is much more acceptable. And I want to tell women that they are sexually powerful beings, but they often don't get in touch with it because they are socialized to please men.
The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.
Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.
Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?
Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love. "
No Victory Without Suffering
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.
States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.
If you stay in the mainstream of life, in other words, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines. Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate. In other words, you hold onto your values, but you do it much more inclusively, humbly and in an open ended way. Suffering takes you there.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.
Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.
But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.