William Shakespeare Quotes about Suffering

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We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

William Shakespeare

Suffering, Littles, Enjoy

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

William Shakespeare

Evil, Suffering, Shame

William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”, p.250

I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.

William Shakespeare

Dream, Men, Suffering

'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63

Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us.

William Shakespeare

War, Support, Suffering

William Shakespeare (2012). “Coriolanus”, p.3, Courier Corporation

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

William Shakespeare

Fire, Rivers, Suffering

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.510

I do oppose My patience to his fury, and am arm'd To suffer, with a quietness of spirit, The very tyranny and rage of his.

William Shakespeare

Patience, Suffering, Arms

William Shakespeare (1863). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.343

We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.

William Shakespeare

Insanity, Mind, Suffering

William Shakespeare (1860). “The Mind of Shakspeare as Exhibited in His Works”, p.157

Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will.

William Shakespeare

Suffering, Thee, Benedick

"Love's labour's lost. Much ado about nothing. Merchant of Venice".

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

William Shakespeare

Men, Suffering, Quality

William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Alexander Pope (1803). “Antony and Cleopatra. King Lear”, p.184

Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love.

William Shakespeare

Passion, Heart, Suffering

William Shakespeare (1823). “The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the corrected copies left by G. Steevens and E. Malone, with a selection of notes from the most eminent commentors by A. Chalmers”, p.343

Where the greater malady is fixed, The lesser is scarce felt.

William Shakespeare

Suffering, Fixed, Malady

O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer!

William Shakespeare

Sympathy, Suffering, Saws

William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.3813, BookCaps Study Guides

He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger.

William Shakespeare

Heart, Men, Suffering

William Shakespeare (2011). “Titus Andronicus and Timon of Athens: Two Classical Plays”, p.184, Palgrave Macmillan