Suffering Quotes

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

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

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those who have known suffering.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

Why was love such an addictive drug? Why did loving someone cause such suffering?

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

When there is pain, there are no words. All pain is the same.

All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.

The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.

Suffering for your art is most definitely overrated but I do get a certain, I don't know, satisfaction from being able to deal with my paranoia and insecurity.

If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering.

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Whenever I’m suffering from insomnia, I just look at a picture of a Toyota Camry and I’m straight off.

Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

If the soul would know the merit which one acquires in temptations suffered in patience and conquered, it would be tempted to say: "Lord, send me temptations."

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

He understood then that neither time nor distance had lessened his love for her. But was love that made him ache with suffering truly worth fighting for?

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara.

I may just release all the interviews as Part Two and then write a larger summary later on. That way we do not suffer further delays.

The child is much more spiritually elevated than is usually supposed. He often suffers, not from too much work, but from work that is unworthy of him.

True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience.

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.