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Quotes about suffering
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. (Achebe Chinua)
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. (Achebe Chinua)
Not without hope we suffer and we mourn. (Achebe Chinua)
Wisdom comes alone through suffering. (Achebe Chinua)
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. (Achebe Chinua)
You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone. (Achebe Chinua)
Suffering is part of the divine idea. (Achebe Chinua)
It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer (Achebe Chinua)
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least. (Achebe Chinua)
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. (Achebe Chinua)
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. (Achebe Chinua)
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Achebe Chinua)
You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. (Achebe Chinua)
No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing. (Achebe Chinua)
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. (Achebe Chinua)
It is the lot of man to suffer. (Achebe Chinua)
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. (Achebe Chinua)
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. (Achebe Chinua)
We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful than any other. (Achebe Chinua)
Great artists suffer for the people. (Achebe Chinua)
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. (Achebe Chinua)
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. (Achebe Chinua)
The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing. (Achebe Chinua)
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. (Achebe Chinua)
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. (Achebe Chinua)
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