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

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.
Bodhidharma

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.
Bodhidharma

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

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.
Layne Staley

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
Layne Staley

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
Benjamin Disraeli

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.
Isabelle Adjani

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth

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

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
Albert Pike

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

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
Madame de Stael

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
Clara Barton

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
John Ruskin