Top 100 Suffering Man Quotes
#1. Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
Gustave Flaubert
#3. The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
Thomas Carlyle
#4. Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
Pat Conroy
#5. That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.
Hall Caine
#6. Trials are not arbitrary. When I speak about them, I am referring to the mindful suffering.Man has come to his present development thanks to his hardships and trials.These are what prepare man for the Coming of Love.
Peter Deunov
#7. Lo! ye believers in gods all goodness, and in man all ill, lo you! see the omniscient gods oblivious of suffering man; and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.
Herman Melville
#8. Man can be master of nothing while he fears death, but he who does not fear it possesses all. If there were no suffering, man would not know his limitations, would not know himself.
Leo Tolstoy
#9. Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#10. Chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.
Emmet Fox
#11. Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
Epicurus
#12. You can be sure you are a man of God if you suffer injustice gladly and in silence.
Josemaria Escriva
#13. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of This World (179).
Alejo Carpentier
#14. There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.
Leo Tolstoy
#15. I know about people who talk about suffering for the common good. It's never bloody them! When you hear a man shouting "Forward, brave comrades!" you'll see he's the one behind the bloody big rock and the wearing the only really arrow-proof helmet!
Terry Pratchett
#16. The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.
Billy Graham
#17. Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
Alexander MacLaren
#18. I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright.
Eli Brown
#19. Every war, every plague is God's judgment. But every man who rises up to stop the wars and the plagues is God's instrument. Human action is God's will, not blind indifference in the face of suffering.
John Kramer
#20. Maybe man does not love well-being only? Maybe he loves suffering just as much? Maybe suffering is just as profitable for him as well-being? For man sometimes loves suffering terribly much, to the point of passion, and that is a fact.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. But theoretical, imagined suffering is not what distresses a man and destroys his peace of mind. Only what you have seen with pitying eyes can really shake you.
Stefan Zweig
#23. A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we go in the scale of life, the greater is the capacity for suffering.
Dale Carnegie
#24. If matter mute and inanimate, though changed by the forces of Nature into a multitude of forms, can never die, will the spirit of man suffer annihilation when it has paid a brief visit, like a royal guest, to this tenement of clay?
William Jennings Bryan
#25. Suffering is what gives a man strength, my boy, just as the steel most hammered turns out the hardest.
Joe Abercrombie
#26. Of all the featherless beasts, only man, chained by his self-imposed slavery to the clock, denies the elemental fire and proceeds as best he can about his business, suffering quietly, martyr to his madness. Much to learn.
Edward Abbey
#27. In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.
Billy Graham
#28. All true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of men, in the great solitudes; and it can only be obtained through suffering. Suffering and privation are the only things that can open the mind of man to that which is hidden from his fellows.' That
Doug Scott
#29. For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.
Auliq Ice
#30. God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man once see his God down in the arena as a Man-suffering, tempted, sweating, and agonized, finally dying a criminal's death-and he is a hard man indeed who is untouched.
John Bertram Phillips
#31. Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#32. Until the evil man finds evil unmistakably present in his existence, in the form of pain, he is enclosed in illusion.
C.S. Lewis
#33. Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.
Christopher Dutton
#34. He needs a looser association. He needs something that implies a man who wants the ice shard to remain in his chest, who's learned to love the sensation of being pierced.
Michael Cunningham
#35. If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint Augustine
#36. Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.
Epicurus
#37. The old man began to lose heart at this endless return of chains, this rebirth of shackles, this proliferation of suffering, which the more resigned began to accept as proof of the uselessness of all revolt (171-172).
Alejo Carpentier
#38. Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)
Dante Alighieri
#39. After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#40. This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged him to try and leave while there was time; I offered to go back with him. And he would say yes, and then he would remain...
Joseph Conrad
#41. No man suffers injustice without learning,
vaguely but surely, what justice is.
Isaac Rosenfeld
#42. What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#43. Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.
Marcel Proust
#44. Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#45. Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#46. The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.
Neal Shusterman
#47. Since the dawn of time man understands that suffering, faced with no fear, is his passport to freedom.
Paulo Coelho
#48. Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#49. The destiny of a man is determined by his daily action, God won't allow you go anywhere, if you don't make an attempt to move.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#50. This is the great work of a man: always to take the blame for his own sins before God, and toexpect temptation to his last breath.
Anthony The Great
#51. I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.
Jack Kirby
#52. Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way
Barry Unsworth
#53. The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.
Gautama Buddha
#54. The man would stop suffering, when he become capable of dissolving the I.
Samael Aun Weor
#55. I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.
Mark Ruffalo
#57. Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown ... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him.
Gertrude The Great
#58. In His thirty-three years on earth, Jesus suffered with man; on the cross He suffered for man.
Billy Graham
#59. It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#61. The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Daniel D. Palmer
#62. Don't worry about being nervous. A lot of vampires have trouble with this from time to time. It happens to everyone."
"If I was a forty-year-old man suffering from erectile dysfunction, that would be a great comfort to me, thanks.
Molly Harper
#63. A king is a man strong of character and conviction who leads by example and truly cares for the suffering of his people,not a brute who rules simply because he is the strongest.
R.A. Salvatore
#65. Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.
Maximus The Confessor
#66. The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.
James Allen
#67. This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.
Stephen R. Donaldson
#68. He was frigging Dionysus! The man who invented the three-way! He'd had sex every possible way known to man. He'd made improvements to the Kama Sutra. And he was suffering from a major case of wet noodle.
Rosanna Leo
#69. A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.
Neal Bascomb
#70. Nature has made us passive, and to suffer is our lot. While we are in the flesh every man has his chain and his clog; only it is looser and lighter to one man than to another, and he is more at ease who takes it up and carries it than he who drags it.
Seneca The Younger
#71. The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#72. If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.
Gregory Bateson
#73. In sickness, with its attendant pain, patience is required. If the only perfect man who ever lived-even Jesus of Nazareth-was called upon to endure great suffering, how can we, who are less than perfect, expect to be free of such challenges?
Thomas S. Monson
#74. Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#75. A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
John Cleese
#76. There was once a fiddler who played so beauitully that everybody danced. A deaf man who could not hear the music considered them all insane. Those who are with Jesus in suffering hear this music to which other men are deaf. They dance and do not care if they are considered insane.
Richard Wurmbrand
#77. The death of the warrior or the old man or the little child, this I understand, and I take away the pain and end the suffering. I do not understand this death-of-the-mind.
Terry Pratchett
#78. The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
#79. What distinguishes man from his innocent brothers, the animals, ... is not language, nor reason, nor even civilization ... it is man's enormous appetite for suffering.
Georges Duhamel
#80. She saw both serenity and suffering in the calm of his face, an expression like a smile of pain, though he was not smiling ... He did not look like a man bearing torture now, but like a man who sees that which makes the torture worth bearing.
Ayn Rand
#81. As an old man ... looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's taught one anything is suffering. Not success, not happiness, not anything like that. The only thing that really teaches one what life's about ... is suffering, affliction.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#82. All they're going to see is a wealthy man who has no idea how to heal their suffering.
Marie Lu
#83. No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
Martin Luther
#84. ..such a cross is too much for you. You wanted to regenerate another man in yourself through suffering; I say just remember that other man always, all your life, and wherever you escape to--and that is enough for you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
Oriana Fallaci
#86. [..] it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#87. After all, man may be fond not only of
well-being. Perhaps he is just as fond
of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just
as much in his interest as well-being?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#88. The average man is either victorious or defeated and, depending on that, he becomes a persecutor or a victim. These two conditions are prevalent as long as one does not see. Seeing dispels the illusion of victory, or defeat, or suffering.
Carlos Castaneda
#89. It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.
Corazon Aquino
#90. Trevor gave a long-suffering groan. "I'm going to be on my
hands and knees, aren't I?"
Nipping the other man's lower lip, Pete growled, "You'll be
where I put you.
Katie Allen
#91. Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.
Simone Weil
#92. In reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders have come into being without that suffering? without the overseer's whip, the slave's fear, the ruler's vanity? was not the monumentality of past epochs created by that which is negative and evil in man?
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#94. But who knows why a man, though suffering, clings, above all the other well members, to the arm or leg which he knows must come off?
William Faulkner
#95. Smile upon those that are downhearted and sad; lift the load from those that find theirs too heavy to bear, in gentleness, in kindness, in long-suffering, in patience, in mercy, in brotherly love. And as ye show forth these to thy fellow man, the ways and the gates of glory open before thee.
Edgar Cayce
#96. The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#97. Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.
H.L. Mencken
#98. A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.
Robert Musil
#99. Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.
Petr Skrabanek
#100. He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.
Gautama Buddha
