Suffering Quotes

I think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Mankind was not meant to suffer — bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.

Being unwanted is the worst disease any human being can suffer from.

Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world–the company of those who have known suffering.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.