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Suffering: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Knowledge by suffering entereth, And Life is perfected by Death.— E. B. BROWNING — A Vision of Poets.

Leniter ex merito quidquid patiare ferendum est, Quæ venit indigne pœna dolenda venit. What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.— OVID — Heriodes. V. 7.

Levia perpessi sumus Si flenda patimur. We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for.— SENECA — Agamemnon. 665.