Suffering Quotes

Serve humanity, regardless of religion. Show solidarity for those suffering and oppressed.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]

Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

War demands sacrifice of the people. It gives only suffering in return.

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it

Slavery, protection, and monopoly find defenders, not only in those who profit by them, but in those who suffer by them.

The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

It's quite possible that Beckham suffers from a mental block at big tournaments

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

No one is alone during tribulations - there's always someone else thinking, rejoicing or suffering in the same way. This thought gives us strength to face the challenge that lies in front of us.

The Martyr finds her way to self-knowledge through pain, suffering, and surrender.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief: We must suffer them all again.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.

Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death. Wherever suffering is ignored, there will be the seeds of conflict, for suffering degrades and embitters and enrages.

Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform suffering into happiness and Suzanne Bryant's film YOGA IS shows us this path.