Suffering Quotes

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.

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

We have to get the word out that mental illnesses can be diagnosed and treated, and almost everyone suffering from mental illness can live meaningful lives in their communities.

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance.

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

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

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

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

Suffering is a short pain and a long joy.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race?

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Sufre mas el que espera siempre que aquel que nunca espero a nadie? Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes.

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

If a person wants to be hurt and enjoys suffering, then there is no reason not to indulge him in his wont.

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person.

We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel.

The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Consciousness will not always solve the problem, but it may make the suffering meaningful.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.

Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

I don't enjoy. I suffer from enjoying. It's very Christian.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Let us consider what the glorious Virgin endured, and what the holy apostles suffered, and we shall find that they who were nearest to Jesus Christ were the most afflicted.

The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.