Definition of Suffering

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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
Bertrand Russell

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