Suffering Quotes

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

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

The Cross will not crush you; if its weight makes you stagger, its power will also sustain you.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

The condition of truth is to allow suffering to speak, it means then that if you have a prophetic sensibility, you are committed to loving others and if you love others, you hate injustice.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Suffer what there is to suffer. Enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life.

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

I can never forget suffering and I will never forget sunset. I came home with all of it in my mind.

Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

suffering is the essence of success!!!

O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.

If my revelation of having bipolar II has encouraged one person to seek help, then it is worth it. There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.

For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.

My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.

Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are.

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

It is my weakness that gives me all my strength.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness

I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

My sufferings I can compare to nothing else than the burning agonies of hell!

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

If you could see or feel the suffering you wouldn't think twice. Give back life. Don't eat meat.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

This is the core of the human spirit ... If we can find something to live for - if we can find some meaning to put at the center of our lives - even the worst kind of suffering becomes bearable.

Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

From suffering I have learned this: that whoever is sore wounded by love will never be made whole unless she embraces the very same love which wounded her.

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.