Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosopher, Writer
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
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World Suffering
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"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."
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
Chinua Achebe
Novelist, Poet
"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."
William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"The salvation of the world is in man's suffering."
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."
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"The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer."
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"Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise."
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"Wisdom comes alone through suffering."
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"Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering."
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"If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else."
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"I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another."
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"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."
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"If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive."
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"Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another."
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"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."
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"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."
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"I can sympathize with everything, except suffering."
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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."
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"A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea."
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