Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little.
Buddha

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller

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

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

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.
Kurt Cobain

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

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

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.
Sigmund Freud

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
John Calvin

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.
Leo Tolstoy