Suffering Quotes

How much suffering and fear, and How many harmful things are in existence? If all arises from clinging to the "I", What should I do with this great demon?

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, "I suffer and I want you to know" - and he will, she will, appreciate it.

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.

Which is worse, past or future? Neither. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.

Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful.

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

Mr. Douglass talks about the wrongs of the negro; but with all the outrages that he to-day suffers, he would not exchange his sexand take the place of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.

If you don't transform your suffering, you'll transmit it.

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

What's done to the children is done to society.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

If you don't co-operate you're gonna suffer from fistophobia.

Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.

A filmmaker doesn't have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don't have to die to shoot a death scene.

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.

Legalism is nothing but a leader's way of avoiding suffering.

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

Suffering comes from not understanding or a full potential or full powers within ourselves to heal, to nurture, to nourish.

And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy.

Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

He who is grateful doesn't suffer.

To be interested in something is to be involved in what is essentially a stressful relationship with that thing, to suffer anxiety on its behalf.