The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
Marcus Garvey

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
Jane Austen

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

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George Orwell

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.
George W. Bush

Why don't Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.
Henny Youngman

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Carl Jung

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
Vincent Van Gogh

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The reward of suffering is experience.
Harry S. Truman

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
Paul Harvey

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
Albert Camus

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
Albert Schweitzer

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
Marcel Proust

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

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
William Faulkner

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.
Robert Mugabe

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
Arthur Schopenhauer