Suffering Quotes - Page 6

• Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Positive, Wisdom, World Suffering

  Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

  El Greco

  Art, Praise, Despise

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• A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Energy, Naked

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1949). “Truth and Fantasy from My Life”

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• I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Self, Half

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• Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Dear, Grows

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• Laughter isn't even the other side of tears. It is tears turned inside out. Truly the suffering is great, here on earth.

  Alice Walker

  Laughter, Tears, Earth

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• Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Feelings

  Chartism ch. 5 (1839)

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• The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

  Heinrich Heine

  Children, Artist, Tears

  Heinrich Heine (1873). “Scintillations from the Prose Works of Heinrich Heine: I. Florentine Nights. II. Excerpts”, p.119

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• Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Teacher, Pain, Soul

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• Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

  George William Russell

  Pain, Lying, Thinking

  George William Russell (1935). “Selected poems”

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• The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.

  Billy Cannon

  Pain, Expression, Elements

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• Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent, visible in the blue puffiness beneath their eyes or the way they would sometimes stop in mid-stride, look down, and shake their heads as though disagreeing with life.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Eye, Blue, Looks

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life.

  Kathryn Scott

  Life, God, Christian

  Song: Hungry, 2003

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• Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Issues, Giving

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• We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Believe, Moments, Ends

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

  Woody Allen

  Death, Depressing, Funny Life

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• One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Doe, Persuasion

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

  Alexis Carrel

  Motivational Sports, Men, Work Out

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

  John Ciardi

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Children

  1962 In the Saturday Review, Fall issue.

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• So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

  Isadora Duncan

  Love, Peace, Children

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• People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Success, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Depression, Pain, World Suffering

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• To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

  John Milton

  Weakness, Miserable, Weak

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 157

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• A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

  Jules Renard

  Ideas, World Suffering, Causes

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• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Character, Two

  Hermann Hesse (1961). “Der Steppenwolf”, Henry Holt & Company

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