“Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.”

“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Why We Can't Wait

“The etymological root of the word, sex, which originated around 1350 from the Middle English, sexus, means to divide.”

Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice artist (1958-2014)

“The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it”

Maimónides (1138–1204) rabbi, physician, philosopher

“Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.”

John Maynard Keynes book The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning

“Someone said of an asthmatic who was being very sweet and patient in his suffering: "One would like to breathe for him."”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.”

Sarada Devi (1853–1920) Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death.”

Viktor E. Frankl book Man's Search for Meaning