Suffering Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

And he never judges someone else's suffering.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.]

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.

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.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

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

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another's suffering.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi.

Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire.

Scholarship that is indifferent to human suffering is immoral.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

There's your labyrinth of suffering. We are all going. Find your way out of that maze.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency.

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.