3,815 Quotes About Suffering

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

Every empire suffers from hubris, arrogance and condescension, and therefore a moral blindness. That's true of the American empire, it was true of the British Empireearlier, and it will certainly be true of the Chinese Empire in the future.

I had to learn how to become a real actor, I had to suffer and be rejected and face that 100 times just like every actor. It wasn't like someone handed it to me

Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman