CURATED COLLECTION

Enduring Suffering

Suffering is the part of life nobody signs up for and nobody escapes — on finding the ground underneath it.

21 quotes found

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The chief aim of philosophy is to help us cope with the hardships of life.

—Alain de BottonAuthor & Philosopher

Contemporary ERA • Western Europe

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Pain didn't seek the favour of medicine. I neither got better, nor worse.

—Mirza GhalibPoet

Industrial Age ERA • South Asia

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God is a tailor. He cuts away what is unnecessary.

—Saadat Hasan MantoWriter

Post-War ERA • South Asia

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Time does not heal all. It only teaches us to live with the incurable.

—Lya LuftNovelist & Poet

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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Suffering is born from causes and conditions.

—NagarjunaPhilosopher

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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I will die for the good of my country, and for the liberty of my people.

—Toussaint LouvertureRevolutionary

Enlightenment ERA • Caribbean

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Time does not heal all wounds. It only teaches us to live with them.

—Chiung YaoNovelist

Post-War ERA • East Asia

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The art of losing isn't hard to master.

—Elizabeth BishopPoet

Post-War ERA • North America

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I am from here. I shall live here and die here, and I shall never leave.

—Tayeb SalihNovelist

Post-War ERA • North Africa

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It is not fitting for me to recount great deeds and conceal great sorrows.

—Anna KomneneHistorian & Emperor

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Silence. That was what he had been walking through.

—Juan RulfoNovelist, Writer & Author

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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The sea eats the rocks. Time eats the hills. Nothing is permanent.

—Kofi AwoonorPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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We didn’t know we were survivors. We just survived.

—Tommy OrangeAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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There's no point in weeping. Grief won't change anything.

—Mikhail SholokhovNovelist

Post-War ERA • Eastern Europe

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To heal a wound, you must first stop scratching it.

—Alejandro JodorowskyPoet

Contemporary ERA • Latin America

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Death does not announce itself; it simply arrives.

—Kofi AwoonorPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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The War was a calamity for civilization beyond all imagining.

—Vera BrittainWriter & Feminist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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War takes everything. It leaves only ghosts and memories.

—Biyi BandelePlaywright & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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I am told Kashmir is burning. I try to remember it: lake, hill, snow.

—Agha Shahid AliPoet

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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After great pain, a formal feeling comes.

—Emily DickinsonPoet

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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