Suffering Quotes

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

We suffer from a repression of the sublime.

Public sentiment is not observed. The wealthy and powerful gain a ready hearing, but the plodding, suffering, unorganized complaining multitude are spurned and derided.

All of our suffering in life is from saying we want one thing and doing another.

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior. Just letting go of your own suffering.

Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.

In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

Nonacceptance is always suffering, no matter what you are not accepting. Acceptance is always freedom, no matter what you are accepting.

Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

Kindnessis giving others happiness.Compassionis removing others' bitterness.Joyis freeing others from suffering.

It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

I return my tax bill without paying it. My reason for doing so is that women suffer taxation yet have not representation.

Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

Stars were made to suffer, and I am a star.

What though I cannot meet my bills? What though I suffer toothache's ills? What though I swallow countless pills?

My own feeling of concern arises from seeing how much moral injury and suffering is created by the superstitions of the Christian mythology.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

The root of suffering is attachment

If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.

The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three.

Even though we must walk in the land of fear, there is no need to fear. The power of His resurrection comes before the fellowship of His sufferings.

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

There is no space wider than that of grief.

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

The greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God - so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Suffering is an extraordinary teacher.

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.