Suffering is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship.

1. Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Franz Kafka

2. Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Marcel Proust

3. You are not suffering because of the things you are experiencing. You are suffering because you think that what is happening is not supposed to be happening.
Teal Swan

4. God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Saint Augustine

5. The root of suffering is attachment.
Buddha

6. Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is in order that someone else may succeed after you.
Edward Judson

7. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley

8. Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.
Allan Lokos

9. When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people’s sufferings too. That’s the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
Yoko Ono

10. The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
Napoleon

11. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Anonymous

12. It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.
Emil Zatopek

13. There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
Susan George

14. Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

15. Women have a predestination to suffering.
Bela Lugosi

16. Suffering of any kind is a very clear and unmistakable sign that we have abandoned love.
Dan Brule

17. Life is suffering.
Buddha

18. Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
Mother Teresa

19. For most people, their spiritual teacher is their suffering. Because eventually the suffering brings about awakening.
Eckhart Tolle

20. Pain Is Inevitable; Suffering Is Optional
Anonymous

21. You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth.
Cornel West

22. You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life.
Dalnin Katagiri

23. Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
Bryant H. McGill

24. Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.
Brad Warner

25. Suffering Is A Gift In It Is Hidden Mercy.
Jalal Al-L Ahmad

26. I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
Anais Nin

27. Some people are suffering and you'll never know because they suffer in silence
Anonymous

28. Sometimes the only way around suffering is to go straight through it.
Anonymous

29. Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams

30. Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
Ram Dass

31. A Man Who Fears Suffering Is Already Suffering From What He Fears.
Michel De Montaigne

32. Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.
Lurlene McDaniel

33. Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
Tom Lantos

34. There is no love without suffering.
Arielle Dombasle

35. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

36. What we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.
King James

37. Great souls suffer in silence.
Friedrich Schiller

38. All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer

39. We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.
Brenda Shoshanna

40. Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

41. Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to your. And stay.
Will Smith

42. Life is Not About Happiness Its About Suffering And Knowledge And Pain And Heartache Without Any Of That You Might As Well Just Be A Empty Soul.
Anonymous

43. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi

44. Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

45. If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
Dalai Lama

46. Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.
Theodore Roosevelt

47. If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil

48. Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus

49. Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering – that is a fact.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

50. When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the.
Thich Nhat Hanh

51. Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carre

52. Balls, the lot of it. It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. the systematic encroachment of the big D.
John Le Carre

53. But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it’s better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you’re fighting for.
Paulo Coelho

54. The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can’t have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I’d rather not be in a cage. I’d rather be dead. And it’s real simple. And I think it’s not that uncommon.
Angelina Jolie

55. It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
Victor Hugo

56. Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

57. Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
Felicia Hemans

58. I hate life, I hate death and everything in between just doesn't interest me.
Chris Rapier

59. Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.
Gloria Steinem

60. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

61. The only way love punishes is by suffering.
M.K. Gandhi