I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.
Mary J. Blige

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Elie Wiesel

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
Samuel Smiles

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

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
W. Somerset Maugham

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
W. Somerset Maugham

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.
Kofi Annan

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace

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

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
David Herbert Lawrence

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.
Georges Duhamel

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Willie Nelson

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
Tony Benn

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.
Tom Stoppard

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

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.
Paul Dirac

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.
John Cleese

Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Henry Ward Beecher

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
Miguel de Unamuno