Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable.

No Victory Without Suffering

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone.’ (Nykyrian)

Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.

Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die.

Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Better to suffer than to die.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.