Suffering Quotes

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity.

A drunkard clasp his teeth and not undo 'em, To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em.

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.

He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.

Suffering is unbearable if you aren’t certain that God is for you and with you.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

To my abusers: I forgive you.

Fulfill me, make me happy, make me feel safe, tell me who I am. The world cannot give you those things, and when you no longer have such expectations, all self created suffering comes to an end.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

If certain players do not carry out their tasks properly on the pitch then their colleagues will suffer.

Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.

Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

Suffering begins to dissolve when we can question the belief or the hope that there's anywhere to hide.

A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame.

Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.

When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Many would be willing to have afflictions provided that they not be inconvenienced by them.

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

We, like the Mother of the World, become the compassionate presence that can hold, with tenderness, the rising and passing waves of suffering.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

Kindness-mere kindness-cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.

We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear.