Suffering Quotes

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?

He who is indifferent to the suffering of others is a traitor to that which is truly human.

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.

I did not pray for any relief, but I prayed for strength to suffer with courage, humility and love.

Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering!

All those who belong to Jesus Christ are fastened with Him to the cross.

Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.

It is not a case we are treating; it is a living, palpitating, alas, too often suffering fellow creature.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

May the suffering of all beings be pacified.

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.

Only through suffering do we learn

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.

Hell is the suffering of being unable to love.

Lord, I am willing To receive what You give. To lack what You withhold. To relinquish what You take, To suffer what You inflict, To be what you require.

Suffering is a great grace; through suffering the soul becomes like the Saviour; in suffering love becomes crystallised; the greater the suffering, the purer the love.

You only know that you’re in love when you suffer.

Because to write, one must truly suffer.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.

I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

If the criminal will not keep his gains for ever and his victim will not always suffer want, surely man passes like a shadow and troubles himself in vain.

We need to empower women: provide them with work for their own income, and teach them to become independent of men so they will never have to have their children suffering the same torture.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

If we are extremists, then we are not ashamed of it, for the conditions that our people suffer are extreme, and extreme illness can not be cured with moderate medicine

Violence is what happens when we don't know what else to do with our suffering.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act non-virtuously, suffering results.

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.

Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!

Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

I think all sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

Compatible comes from the Latin "compati", meaning "to suffer with". If you are not willing to suffer with someone until death do you part, then you are not compatible.

When a living system is suffering from ill health, the remedy is found by connecting with more of itself.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.