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One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one's words much. — Charlotte Bronte

It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. — Thomas Jefferson

Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

So long as space remains
So long as sentient beings'
Suffering remains
I will remain
In order to help,
In order to serve. — Dalai Lama

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. — Felicia Hemans

Priceless virtues are love, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness, goodness, long-suffering, patience faithfulness and self-control. — Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world. — Shantideva

People loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering. — Chad Harbach

Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love. — Hermann Hesse

Suffering is like anything else. Live with it long enough, you learn to like the taste. — Leigh Bardugo

As long as we believe that there is something that will permanently satisfy our hunger for security, suffering is inevitable. — Pema Chodron

One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large. — Criss Jami

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? — Andrew Greeley

The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long. — David Foster Wallace

When we're tempted to give up, we must remember God is long-suffering, change is a process, and repentance is a pattern in our lives. — Brad Wilcox

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle

Life is an enduring faith. — Lailah Gifty Akita

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run. — Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

Love is not control. Love is willfully given and received. Love does not rush people who are broken. It's patient and kind and long suffering. — Love Belvin

It was not...a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smolering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion. — Theresa Serber Malkiel

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence. — Cesare Pavese

You stay young as long as you can learn, acquire new habits, and suffer contradictions. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

No one except Sherlock Holmes thought he should be going anywhere, least of all his long-suffering doctor, but the game was afoot. — Emma Jane Holloway

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect.That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect. — Harold L. Ickes

Anything is bearable as long as you can make a story out of it... — M. Scott Momaday

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long. — Aeschylus

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible. — Samuel Beckett

And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy. — Pablo Neruda

There is among the people a silent, long-suffering grief; it withdraws into itself and is silent. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it. — Debasish Mridha

To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end. — Robert D. Hales

As long as one can suffer, one is living ... live and suffer until life is gone. — Betty Smith

The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it. — Russ Ramsey

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word. — Jack White

As long as one suffers one lives. — Graham Greene

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering. — Gautama Buddha

Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose. — James Aldrich

We need to remember that our fight is spiritual. Our battle is a fight of faith, will, long suffering, and persistence. — Sunday Adelaja

As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy? — Esther Hicks

A patient, long before he becomes the subject of medical scrutiny, is, at first, simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering - — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Saul may be the one with Alzheimer's, but I'm the one suffering a long and miserable life. — Eric Rill

Suffering is a short pain and a long joy. — Henry Suso

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile - an idiot. — Edgar Allan Poe

As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering. — Sunday Adelaja

We're still benefiting from the sacrifices of people long dead, but we're also suffering from their errors. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain. — Jennifer Grey

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. — Samuel E. Morison

Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild. — Lady Caroline Lamb

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering. — Ellen Glasgow

Kaylin glanced at the small dragon, who exhaled the sigh of the long-suffering everywhere. — Michelle Sagara

Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. — Stefan Zweig

Society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people. — Geraldine Jewsbury

We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. — Seneca The Younger

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion. — Ishmael Beah

To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,
Is such my future fate?
The morn was dreary, must the eve
Be also desolate? — Charlotte Bronte

Most people lead lives of frustration and disapointment. They enjoy temporary pleasures and long-lasting suffering. — Frederick Lenz

Long-suffering is the greatest life survival virtue. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer. — D. A. Carson

We are part of a long tradition of suffering. We can let it isolate us if we want, but we must realize that isolation is a lie. — Phil Klay

It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business. — Brother Lawrence

He's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while. — Albert Camus

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little. — John Maynard Keynes

I know, by sad experience, with what difficulty a mind, weakened by long and uninterrupted suffering, admits hope, much less assurance. — Sarah Siddons

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation. — Ignatius Of Antioch

Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering — Iyanla Vanzant

Suffering is the finest teacher", said an old friend long ago. "It teaches you details. — Abigail Thomas

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter. — Jerry Bridges

Time is so long when there is suffering and so short when there is happiness. — Manny Steinberg