Suffering Quotes

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !

Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

The reality of heaven doesn't take away the pain of or suffering or our losses, but it assures us that our pain is temporary.

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".

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

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

Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

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.

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

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

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

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

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

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

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

Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non-compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth - so there's two stories there.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

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

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

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

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

He who is grateful doesn't suffer.

Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.