Friedrich NietzscheSourced
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Source: Twilight of the Idols, "Maxims and Arrows" 8 (1888)
Checked quotes about suffering
9 quotes with a known source.
Friedrich NietzscheSourced
If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how.
Source: Twilight of the Idols, "Maxims and Arrows" 12 (1888)
SenecaSourced
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Source: Letters to Lucilius 13, tr. R. M. Gummere
Fyodor DostoevskySourced
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.
Source: Crime and Punishment, Part 3, ch. 5 (1866)
OvidSourced
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
Source: Amores III.11.7 ("Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim")
Edgar Allan PoeSourced
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Source: Letter to George W. Eveleth (4 January 1848)
Helen KellerSourced
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
Source: Optimism (1903)
Ernest HemingwaySourced
The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.
Source: A Farewell to Arms, ch. 34 (1929)
Maya AngelouSourced
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)