Suffering Quotes

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

The neglect this implied, the suffering and wasted quality of human life were appalling.

Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer for it.

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

"All conditioned things are impermanent" - when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You could put all the talent I had into your left eye and still not suffer from impaired vision.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture, and are thus unable to fit all of the pieces neatly into place.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

People suffer when they pursue a life or chase a dream that doesn’t belong to them.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.

When anybody laughs, he has no mind, no thought, no problem, no suffering.

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

All that I do and suffer is but the way to the reward, and not the deserving thereof.

During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

He who wants to win the world for Christ must have the courage to come in conflict with it.

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.

Now smile a real smile for me so I know you're not suffering inside.

Within the word we find two dimensions-reflection and action. If one is sacrificed even in part, the other immediately suffers. To speak a true word is to transform the world.

Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it.

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

The more you love, the more you suffer.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

Being willing to suffer often brings great rewards.

Suffering is wishing things were other than they are.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water.

The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants. You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics.