Suffering Quotes

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

The reward of suffering is experience

Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

Suffering belongs to no language.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

I do not desire to die soon, because in Heaven there is no suffering. I desire to live a long time because I yearn to suffer much for the love of my Spouse.

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Often it is just lack of imagination that keeps a man from suffering very much.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous.

When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.

Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?

Look at the optimism of Nature. Nothing can stop it. Only the ego makes humans pessimistic, and this causes suffering.

We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.

In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.

When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.

That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."

People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous.

We are all more similar than we usually realize. So much of the suffering we do in our life is because of obsession with self.

I don't like to see anybody hurt or suffer, especially children.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

I say unto you that suffering is not holding you, you are holding suffering

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and body--like radiation, cancer, and all.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.