Suffering Quotes

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world.

Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.

Patience is the ability to accept trouble, suffering, delay without getting angry or upset, I feel like if you can master patience you can master anything.

How easy it is to deny the pain of someone else's suffering.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences.

I early conceived a liking for, and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others.

Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.

Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.

We poor creatures are born for man's pleasure and amusement, and destined to go through endless sufferings and trials.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Don't be afraid. Human birth is full of suffering and one has to endure everything patiently, taking the Name of God. None, not even God in human form can escape the sufferings of the body and mind.

A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.

Grief is a sign that we loved something more than ourselves. . . . Grief makes us worthy to suffer with the rest of the world.

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not.

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

In life we do many things, say many things, but the voice of suffering offered out of love - which is perhaps unheard by and unknown to others - is the loudest cry that can penetrate Heaven

The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering

Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

It is better to suffer once than to be in perpetual apprehension.

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

There is always a light within us that is free from all sorrow and grief, no matter how much we may be experiencing suffering.

You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.

My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering.

No one can suffer for all time. No one will spend all his days on this earth in suffering. Every action brings its own result, and one gets one's opportunities accordingly.

If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next.

To change one's life: a. Start immediately b. B. Do it flamboyantly c. No exceptions Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted.

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

I don't care whether animals are capable of thinking; all I care about is that they are capable of suffering!

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.