3,815 Quotes About Suffering

When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse Put to sleep my mother's curse?

The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

I do not believe in the uselessness of suffering. It might be a profound reason to live.

They say that “time assuages,”— Time never did assuage; An actual suffering strengthens, As sinews do, with age. Time is a test of trouble, But not a remedy. If such it prove, it prove too There was no malady.

Forgiveness isn't telling someone it was okay to hurt you. It's telling yourself it’s okay to stop hurting. It doesn’t mean you have to trust them again. It means you can learn to trust yourself again. It doesn’t mean you have to give them a free pass back into your life. It means you are free to take your life back again. Forgiveness is simply emptying your past of its power to empty your present of its peace.

Nothing will change if you believe your suffering is more important than what change has to offer you.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

We can validate trauma by acknowledging it exists (instead of pretending we are okay or burying it) and by taking the necessary time to work through it. It isn't easy, but its the path to freedom and libration from constant suffering.

Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.