Tears soothe suffering eyes. [ Richter ]
Knowledge by suffering endureth,
And life is perfected by Death. [ Mrs. Browning ]
Suffering is part of the divine idea. [ Ward Beecher ]
Experience is the extract of suffering. [ Arthur Helps ]
But faithfulness can feed on suffering.
And knows no disappointment. [ George Eliot ]
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude,
Suffering, yet hoping all things. [ Mrs. Hemans ]
Silence in times of suffering is the best. [ Dryden ]
Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]
To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering. [ Milton ]
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering. [ Alfred de Musset ]
Suffering for a friend doubles the friendship. [ Proverb ]
Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side. [ Publius Syrus ]
Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong;
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. [ Shelley ]
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. [ Shelley ]
Happiness is a chimaera and suffering a reality. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]
Passion is always suffering, even when gratified. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes. [ Lowell ]
Trust me, that for the instructed, time will come
When they shall meet no object but may teach
Some acceptable lesson to their minds
Of human suffering or human joy.
For them shall all things speak of man. [ Wordsworth ]
Suffering in human life is very widely vicarious. [ Ward Beecher ]
Suffering is the mother of fools, reason of wise men.
There is difference between living long and suffering long. [ Proverb ]
It is better to suffer than to lose the power of suffering. [ Walter Savage Landor ]
One ungrateful man does an injury to all who are in suffering. [ Syrus ]
Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate. [ Ouida ]
It is not the suffering, but the cause and the patience that makes a martyr. [ Proverb ]
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering. [ Quintilian ]
Love cannot clasp all it yearns for in its bosom, without first suffering for it. [ Ward Beecher ]
Through suffering and sorrow thou hast passed, to show us what a woman true can be. [ Lowell ]
Woman has this in common with angels, that suffering beings belong especially to her. [ Balzac ]
Wars should be undertaken in order that we may live in peace without suffering wrong. [ Cicero ]
Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others. [ Virgil ]
Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child? [ Mrs. Norton ]
Nature has lent us tears - the cry of suffering when the man at last can bear it no longer. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The seal of suffering impressed upon our destiny announces in clear characters our high calling. [ De Gerando ]
Great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions. [ Lowell ]
The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. [ Thackeray ]
Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness - that is, suffering in the bosom of others. [ Benthem ]
Death is not, in fact, the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is a relief to those who are worn out with suffering. [ Metastasio ]
In a free country there is much clamor with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, but much grievance. [ Carnot ]
Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer. [ Professor Vinet ]
Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own. [ Thomas à Kempis ]
If the wave could speak in any other language than that of its own harsh thunder, how many tales of agony and suffering might it unfold. [ Selkirk ]
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. [ Longfellow ]
This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself. [ Aughey ]
There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering, as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. [ Bulwer ]
When I beheld human affairs involved in such dense darkness, the guilty exulting in their prosperity, and pious men suffering wrong, what religion I had began to reel backward and fall. [ Claudius, Claudian ]
When God will educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons; He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolations. [ Celia Burleigh ]
Many shiver from want of defence against the cold; but there is vastly more suffering among the rich from absurd and criminal modes of dress, which fashion has sanctioned, than among the poor from deficiency of raiment. [ Channing ]
It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness. [ Lady Morgan ]
Poetry can make even the thought of death beautiful, and the sadness of bereavement not without a certain pleasure. Great poets have elicited from the sternest suffering a principle of enjoyment. Sublime faith and earnest love can conjure spirits the most lovely from the darkest abyss. [ Tuckerman ]
As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so, with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
There are so many things to lower a man's top-sails - he is such a dependent creature - he is to pay such court to his stomach, his food, his sleep, his exercise - that, in truth, a hero is an idle word. Man seems formed to be a hero in suffering, not a hero in action. Men err in nothing more than in the estimate which they make of human labor. [ Cecil ]
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]