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Quotes about 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. (Cleese John)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. (Cleese John)
There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning. (Cleese John)
Oh, fear not in a world like this, and thou shalt know erelong, know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong. (Cleese John)
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Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery. (Cleese John)
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (Cleese John)
Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth. (Cleese John)
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption. All the desolation of the poor people, not only their material poverty, but their spiritual destitution, must be redeemed. And we must share it, for only by being one with them can we redeem them by bringing God into their lives and bringing them to God. (Cleese John)
One must really have suffered oneself to help others. (Cleese John)
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. (Cleese John)
To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of suffering, make it our own creation, our own choice; submit to it. A justification for suicide. (Cleese John)
Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next. (Cleese John)
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. (Cleese John)
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. (Cleese John)
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. (Cleese John)
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. (Cleese John)
What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. (Cleese John)
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. (Cleese John)
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. (Cleese John)
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. (Cleese John)
We all choke. (Cleese John)
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. (Cleese John)
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man -- that is, the more divine -- the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. (Cleese John)
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it. (Cleese John)
The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard. (Cleese John)
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