Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have bought it or baked it or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
—Daniel Berrigan
Consider how much more often you suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
—Marcus Antonius
Without meaning to belittle the wonders of science, I do not think they can absolve mankind of suffering, desire, madness, and death.
—Lewis H. Lapham
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
—Dodie Smith
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
—Albert Schweitzer
To perceive is to suffer.
—Aristotle
But penance need not be paid in suffering… It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
—Barbara Hall
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
—Edgar Allan Poe
I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.
—G. K. Chesterton
I have found that it don't really matter if you're brought up fine or rough, but that it helps to have someone to spill your sorrows to.
—Helen Keller
But a somewhat more liberal and sympathetic examination of mankind will convince us that the cross is even older than the gibbet, that voluntary suffering was before and independent of compulsory; and in short that in most important matters a man has always been free to ruin himself if he chose.
—Helen Keller
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
—Henri-Frederic Amiel
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
—Joseph Addison
A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.
—Louise Bogan
I have not yet met with a sorrow that could not be borne, nor with one who's passing did not leave me stronger.
—Oscar Wilde