The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage. - Thucydides
What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one! - Ann Radcliffe
As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war. - Eugene B. Sledge
We aren't really called to save the world, not even to save one person; Jesus does that. We are just called to love with abandon. We are called to enter into our neighbors' sufferings and love them right there. - Katie J. Davis
Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow man and I will tell you how much you have loved them. - Helmut Thielicke
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings. - Ludwig van Beethoven
Only dead surpasses the sufferings - Compton Gage
I am enduring temporary sufferings to fulfill my dearest dreams. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Sufferings helps to soften the harden heart. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Let us be kind and compassionate to all beings. Everyone wants to enjoy their lives, everyone has sufferings, and everyone wants peace and happiness. - Debasish Mridha
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. - Martin Luther King Jr.
Afflictions are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is awaiting us. - Arthur W. Pink
Today's sufferings will be the pleasure of future success. - Debasish Mridha
Heart can't feel pain or sufferings when it is in love. - Debasish Mridha
We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings! - Ramana Pemmaraju
No matter our sins or our sufferings, we are not isolated or abandoned. Christ is there for us, in good times and bad, and if we know how to follow Him, how to walk in His footsteps, then the road home doesn’t seem quite so treacherous or impossible to scale. - Toni Sorenson
Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary. - James Purdy
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
Great artists are great not because of their great sufferings, but because of their joy in creating. - Marty Rubin
The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; only one of ourselves can someday do that...It will need great courage but it will be done, because all things must work toward ultimate good; there is no real wastage and no destruction. - Radclyffe Hall
The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass...all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness. - Francis de Sales
Life is a form of continuous sufferings and lies. - Yahia Kareem
Sufferings lead a man to his soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Right beneath the numerous sufferings in life lies the precious gift called success. - Auliq-Ice
Oh thee! Lets fill my mind with joy of kindness to make joyful me.Let me see the sufferings and agony.Let me feel the sadness and misery.Still be kind to thee. - Debasish Mridha
What do you believe in ?""People's sufferings, and the fact that it is abominable. One should do everything to abolish it. To tell you the truth, nothing else seems to me of any importance. - Simone de Beauvoir
In every sufferings you've encountered, there will be an opportunity to settle things in a right place. If that comes, grab it. Learn to forgive. - Mahadena Madid
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. - Oscar Wilde
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings. - Friedrich Nietzsche