Suffering Quotes

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Mark Twain Quote - I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. Free

Mark Twain

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

Aeschylus Quote - For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life. Free

Aeschylus

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one’s life.

Helen Keller Quote - Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Free

Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Albert Camus Quote - When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. Free

Albert Camus

When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.

Alan Watts Quote - Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. Free

Alan Watts

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Albert Camus Quote - For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering. Free

Albert Camus

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment’s human suffering.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. Free

Oscar Wilde

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

William Shakespeare Quote - We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have. Free

William Shakespeare

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

Helen Keller Quote - The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. Free

Helen Keller

The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller Quote - Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. Free

Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Helen Keller Quote - We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering. Free

Helen Keller

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.

Aeschylus Quote - Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain. Free

Aeschylus

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain.

Oscar Wilde Quote - Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success. Free

Oscar Wilde

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

Aeschylus Quote - Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. Free

Aeschylus

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Aeschylus Quote - It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. Free

Aeschylus

It is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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