Suffering Quotes

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

True love is measured by the thermometer of suffering.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

To succeed,all I need to do is suffer.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

You can have it all without suffering from a meltdown.

We are coerced into faith by our suffering.

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

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.

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

According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.

I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.

Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

Who can take away suffering without entering it?

Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

We can always begin again.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

Every mind deserves to be free. When the mind is free, that's the end of suffering.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

Do not think only of your own joy, but vow to save all beings from suffering. This is sharing in its highest form and purity beyond all poisons of this world.

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.

Suffering also has its worth. Through sorrow, pride is driven out And pity felt for those who wander in samsara; Evil is avoided, goodness seems delightful.

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself.

Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.