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“Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.”
Princess Diana
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
Bertrand Russell
“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.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.”
Charles Stanley
“Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.”
Angelina Jolie
“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.”
Vincent Van Gogh
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
Albert Schweitzer
“The reward of suffering is experience.”
Harry Truman
“Great souls suffer in silence.”
Friedrich Schiller
“Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder