Suffering Quotes

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

Sometimes it felt like I was carrying pieces of human flesh back home with me, not negatives. It's as if you are carrying the suffering of the people you have photographed.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

A woman's suffering is never above half known, for the fact of the publicity of her wrongs is counted to her for disgrace.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Christ, who came meek and mild to save us from pain and suffering, was the One who talked more about hell than any other person in Scripture.

Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

The cause of all pain and suffering is ignorance.

No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. We will also suffer along the way. Living wild is it's own reward.

I am mortal, born to love and to suffer.

Indeed, good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it.

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

Suffering is not blessed because it is suffering but because it is [Christ's]. Suffering is not the context that explains the cross; the cross is the context that explains suffering.

Great artists suffer for the people.

In Buddhism, ignorance as the root cause of suffering refers to a fundamental misperception of the true nature of the self and all phenomena.

Suffering and evil will not have the last word.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.

Even should it be conclusively proved that human beings benefit directly from the suffering of animals, its infliction would nevertheless be unethical and wrong.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.

Be careful how you choose your enemy, for you will come to resemble him. The moment you adapt your enemy's methods your enemy has won. The rest is suffering and historical opera.

Use what seems like poison as medicine. Use your personal suffering as the path to compassion for all beings.

It is better to suffer an injustice than to commit one

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.

True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

The Gospel gives human suffering deep, personal, and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others and, finally, by connecting us to the very "pain of God".

It is impossible to achieve the aim without suffering.

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: 1. by doing a deed; 2. by experiencing a value; and 3. by suffering.