Suffering Quotes

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.

Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

It is not necessary that one should humble oneself to deserve assistance, it is sufficient that one should suffer.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

If the angels were capable of envy, they would envy us for two things: one is the receiving of Holy Communion, and the other is suffering.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

I don't suffer from a mental illness, I live with it.

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.

So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little.

Only fools need suffer to learn.

I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

You shouldn't side-step suffering if you have to go through it to get where you're going.

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.

Giving cancer to laboratory animals has not and will not help us to understand the disease or to treat those persons suffering from it.

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.

Only within our body, with its heart and mind, can bondage and suffering be found, and only here can we find true liberation.

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

That we may give our body and our blood over to suffering and pain, like Christ - not for Self, but to give harvests of peace and justice to our People.

Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would have been gone a long time ago.

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.

In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World.

Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

So many in our world today are suffering from isolation, war and oppression. So much money is spent on the construction of armaments. Many, many young people are in despair because of the danger.

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Masturbation is our first and natural form of sexual activity and if that's inhibited or damaged, then we suffer for the rest of our lives.