Chinua Achebe Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

  Chinua Achebe

  Doors, World Suffering, Thought Provoking

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Jul 26, 2011

• As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

  Chinua Achebe

  Giving, Creative, Suffering

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “A Man of the People”, p.104, Heinemann

• Men had taken greater blows: that was what made a man a man. For did they not say that a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; that the silent tremor of pain down its body alone must tell of its suffering?

  Chinua Achebe

  Pain, Men, Grieving

• I try as hard as possible not to be pessimistic because I have never thought or believed that creating a Nigerian nation would be easy; I have always known that it was going to be a very tough job. But I never really thought that it would be this tough. And what's going on now, which is a subjection of this potentially great country to a clique of military adventurers and a political class that they have completely corrupted - this is really quite appalling. The suffering that they have unleashed on millions of people is quite intolerable.

  Chinua Achebe

  Country, Jobs, Military

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