Suffering Quotes

If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer

It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

If anything goes wrong, the customer doesn't care whose fault it is. He's the one who's going to suffer anyway.

I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.

Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellowmen and I will tell you how much you have loved them.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

For some people there is no comfort without pain. Thus; we define salvation through suffering. Hence, why we choose people who we know aren't right for ourselves.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Love is suffering. One side always loves more.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Every good composition is above all a work of abstraction. All good painters know this. But the painter cannot dispense with subjects altogether without his work suffering impoverishment.

To be an intellectual really means to speak a truth that allows suffering to speak.

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

To trap one's self-suffering is to risk being devoured from the inside.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.

My likeness to Jesus must be through suffering and humility.

If you embrace all things in this life as coming from the hands of God, and even embrace death to fulfill His holy will, assuredly you will die a saint.

And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.