Top Suffering Quotes
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
Aeschylus
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
Queen Elizabeth II
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
John Ciardi
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Paul Farmer 
Edward Livingston 
Muhammad Yunus 
Jessica Lange 
Martin Luther King, Jr. 
Bertrand Russell 
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Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.
Jim Ramstad 
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I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
Ernest Holmes
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Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.
James F. Cooper
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I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth
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All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Helen Keller
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
Gabriel Marcel
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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
Leo Tolstoy
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I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn't at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can't get to the right answer here.
Donald Berwick
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