Suffering Quotes

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

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

Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?

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

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.

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.

Real misery cuts off all paths to itself.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Suffering belongs to no language.

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

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

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

The reward of suffering is experience

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.

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?

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

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

The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities.

If you have a dog or a cat, you know how developed they can be. How sensitive, how aware. They suffer. We all do.

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer.

There slowly grew up in me an unshakable conviction that we have no right to inflict suffering and death on another living creature, unless there is some unavoidable necessity for it.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.