Here are some proverbs and quotes about suffering.
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A man who is afraid of suffering suffers from fear itself.
Experience purchased by suffering teaches wisdom.
If you cure a monkey of its tooth ache its your maize farm that suffers.
Life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance.Steven Pinker
Only a mother can understand the suffering of a son.
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.Peter Singer
People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!Greta Thunberg
Progressive cultures have worked to free humanity from the brutalities of mere survival and to reduce suffering, improve society, and develop global community.(unknown author)
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.Paulo Coelho
Source: The Alchemist
The main thing is that we can smile at our duties -- yes even at our suffering.
The wild pear has blossomed: the kid goat no longer suffers.
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.Paulo Coelho
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.Robert M. Pirsig
Whether the knife falls on the melon or the melon on the knife, the melon suffers.
