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• I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

  George Meredith

  Adversity, Soul, Body

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• Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch with the truth. Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth, that you might understand that there's falsehood somewhere, just as physical pain is given to you so you will understand that there is disease or illness somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality, when your falsehoods clash with truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Pain, Eye

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• The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Reality, Perfect

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• Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Compassion

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• Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

  John Donne

  Men, Joy, Affliction

  John Donne (1839). “The works of John Donne”, p.575

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• Never judge someone. Especially if you don't know them, because you don't know what they're going through. And for all you know, your words could be the last thing they hear before they decide they have had enough.

  Danny O'Donoghue

  Depression, Judging, Decision

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• Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

  Aeschylus

  Justice, Literature, Scales

  "Agamemnon". Play by Aeschylus,

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• A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

  John Cleese

  Giving Up, Men, Giving

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• Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Happiness, Smile

  "The Will to Power". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1888.

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• Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

  Anatole France

  Depression, Courage, Giving

  "The Garden of Epicurus". Book by Anatole France, 1894.

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• You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.

  David Lynch

  Inspirational, Mean, Dark

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• As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.

  David Platt

  Faith, Death, God

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• You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

  Franz Kafka

  Depression, Health, World Suffering

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Carl Gustav Jung (1969). “Psychology and religion: west and east”

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• In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

  Mother Teresa

  Depression, Night, Light

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• Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

  Henry Suso

  Pain, Law, Quests

  "Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness". Book by Evelyn Underhill, p. 152, 1912.

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• The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

  William Styron

  Pain, Bed, Nails

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• I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

  Emily Dickinson

  Men, Agony, Looks

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.66, First Avenue Editions

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• Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

  Livy

  Men, Dread, Greater

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", III. 39, (pp. 762-763), 1922.

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• Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

  George Orwell

  Fun, World Suffering, People

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.331, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  World Suffering, Religion, Forget

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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• Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

  William Wordsworth

  Sad, Nature, Dark

  'The Borderers' (1842) act 3, l. 1539

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• The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

  William Faulkner

  Men, World Suffering, Salvation

  William Faulkner (1994). “Novels 1942-1954”

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• Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

  Claude Monet

  Relaxation, Would Be, Use

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