Suffering Quotes

Man is born to live, to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

It may look as if the situation is creating the suffering, but ultimately this is not so - your resistance is.

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon?

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

If you are suffering from a bad man's injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

It is loving the Cross that one finds one heart, for Divine Love cannot live without suffering.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It’s what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don’t let them take that from you.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?

Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist, and into them enters suffering, in order that they may have existence.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

If a man achieves or suffers change in premises which are deeply embedded in his mind, he will surely find that the results of that change will ramify throughout his whole universe.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

The subject of pain is the business I am in - to give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering. The existence of pain cannot be denied. I propose no remedies or excuses.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

Whenever you do something that is not aligned with the yearning or your soul—you create suffering.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

If you seek to carry no other crosses but those whose reason you understand, perfection is not for you.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

I believe in nature and humanity and am here to serve the common people of Pakistan. There is a great deal of suffering in this country and I'm here to help.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

The worse illness of our time, is that so many people have to suffer from never being loved

There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

It is so good, so sweet and above all, so beneficial to suffer.

The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an even increasing amount of attention in themselves.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.