Quotes about Suffering

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“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
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“What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.”
— Seneca
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“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”
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“One must really have suffered oneself to help others.”
Suffering
“A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.”
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“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.”
Suffering
“Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.”
Suffering
“If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.”
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“For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.”
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“A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.”
— Seneca
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“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
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“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
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“No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.”
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“I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone.”
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“You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.”
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“It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.”
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“The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
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“It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.”
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