Definition of Suffering

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Suffering

of Suffer

The bearing of pain, inconvenience, or loss; pain endured; distress, loss, or injury incurred; as, sufferings by pain or sorrow; sufferings by want or by wrongs.

Being in pain or grief; having loss, injury, distress, etc.

Related Definitions:

As, Bearing, Being, By, Distress, Endured, Grief, Having, In, Inconvenience, Incurred, Injury, Loss, Of, Or, Pain, Sorrow, Suffer, The, Want

Suffering Quotations

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

Suffering Translations

suffering in French is souffrance, souffrissant
suffering in German is leidend, erduldend, Leiden
suffering in Italian is soffrire
suffering in Latin is dolor, patientia
suffering in Spanish is dolencia
suffering in Swedish is lidande

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