<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Suffering - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solutionto a temporary problem(quoted by Judy Collins on Diane Rehm Show).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58223]]></link><description><![CDATA[How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires more courage to suffer than to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58224]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires more courage to suffer than to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way to be happy is to love to suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58217]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58218]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58219]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be  Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be  Our chastisement or recompense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58211]]></link><description><![CDATA[He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58208]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58204]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless. [Lat., Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est,  Quae venit indigne poena dolenda venit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58205]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. [Lat., Si stimulos pugnis caedis manibus plus dolet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58206]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus  Si flenda patimur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. [Lat., Graviora quae patiantur videntur jam hominibus quam quae metuant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58203]]></link><description><![CDATA[They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore,  Folded their pale hands so meekly,   Spake with us on earth no more!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,  For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58201]]></link><description><![CDATA[And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd,  For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58198]]></link><description><![CDATA[To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan;  The tender for another's pain,   Th' unfeeling for his own.    Yet ah! why should they know their fate,     Since sorrow never comes too late,      And happiness too swiftly flies?       Thought would destroy their paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58190]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58192]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58187]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart was made to be broken ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58188]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart was made to be broken]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58189]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ''Blessed are they that mourn.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. [Lat., Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44172]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24811]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8967</guid></item></channel></rss>