Suffering Quotes

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

The best decision-makers are those who are willing to suffer the most over their decisions but still retain their ability to be decisive.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

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

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

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

We do not suffer by accident.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by oneself the evil is not done, and by one's Self one becomes pure.

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.

We are coerced into faith by our suffering.

You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.

To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.

What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls.

Abortion, for many women, is more than an experience of suffering beyond anything most men will ever know, it is an act of mercy, and an act of self-defense.

When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

The day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and start suffering from frustration and lower levels of satisfaction.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

We're being trained through our incarnations--trained to seek love, trained to seek light, trained to see the grace in suffering.

Observing life, living through it. As you experience life some events call upon you to suffer through them and that's what brings inspiration.

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.