Suffering Tolerance Quotes

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

... a warrior could not avoid pain and grief but only the indulging in them

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.

Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them.

If life is misery, why do we endure it?

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of suffering being only incidental to this aim. To stay alive under almost any circumstances is a sickness with us. Nothing could be more unhealthy than to “watch one’s health” as a means of stalling death. The lengths we will go as procrastinators of that last gasp only demonstrate a morbid dread of that event. By contrast, our fear of suffering is deficient.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.