SUFFERING

Related Subjects: Compassion, Cruelty, Endurance, Hell, Martyrdom, Mercy, Misery, Pain

1. Generally speaking, men are too cowardly to be willing to undergo severe suffering, since they fear death and pain, but they highly prize being mentioned as having suffered.—DIO CHRYSOSTOM
   

2. In the shaping of our inner beliefs what we are made to suffer and to endure counts more than all we may glean in the realms of science.—SIR ARTHUR KEITH, I Believe
   

3. Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.—LONGFELLOW
   

4. It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.—SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Moon and Sixpence
   

5. We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.—MARCEL PROUST, The Sweet Cheat Gone
   

6. Who alone suffers suffers most i' the mind,
   Leaving free things and happy shows behind:
   But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip,
   When grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
   

7. It is of no use reminding humanity of the sufferings of war. For the suffering is never more than that of the individual. It is not cumulative any more than the suffering of peace is cumulative—and it is infinitely more spectacular.—I. A. R. WYLIE