3,815 Quotes About Suffering

  • Author Elizabeth Wurtzel
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    Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.

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  • Author George Washington
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    Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

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  • Author H. G. Wells
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    There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

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  • Author Horace Walpole
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    A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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  • Author Jesmyn Ward
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    Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

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