Sufffering Quotes

“When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Affliction compels us to recognize as real what we do not think possible.”
― Simone Weil

“Waiting is optional, suffering is inevitable, but pain is eternal”
― Shahid Hussain Raja

“Anyone can suffer but it takes a stout heart to suffer well. Pippin never loses his simple Hobbit sense, nor does he succumb to the temptation to use his suffering as an excuse to sully himself”
― Mark Eddy Smith, Tolkien's Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Spiritual Themes of the Lord of the Rings