Suffering Quotes

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.

People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.

The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering - do you not know that it is this discipline alone that has produced all the elevations of humanity so far?

You can actually suffer a little bit more going slowly than when you're going really fast. A faster marathon might even be easier than a slow one, in terms of what it takes out of you mentally.

For most people, spiritual awakening is a gradual process. Rarely does it happen all at once. When it does, though, it is usually brought about by intense suffering.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

...a writer's works, like the water in an artesian well, mount to a height which is in proportion to the depth to which suffering has penetrated his soul.

Suffering for eight hours...the most unpleasant experience I've ever had.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.