Suffering Quotes

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be " "The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself." "The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own." "Wisdom comes from suffering." "Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain." "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." "When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune" "I want to suffer to be purified by suffering" "To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise" "As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport." "There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful" "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional" "Thank you for the tragedy I need it for my art" "The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice" "Silence is a lesson learned through life's many sufferings" "In the face of pain there are no heroes." "Misery and suffering in the world can be reduced through human effort and the example set by it is infectious." "The healthy man does not torture others generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers" "There is no coming to consciousness without pain" "In every cry of every Man"