Suffering Quotes
What we can do for another is the test of powers; what we can suffer for is the test of love.
The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.
We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.
I write very rarely. Only, in fact, when the sheet of paper suffers an existential crisis and threatens, if I don't surrender to it, to bury me alive under its whiteness.
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.
Relying on another is an expression of attachment, not love, a manifestation of insecurity and suffering, not understanding the true nature of our lives.
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.
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.
Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
Every uncomfortable feeling, every pain, every moment of stress & suffering is for your own self-realizatio n.
We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
We point to our unhappy circumstances to rationalize our negative feelings. This is the easy way out. It takes, after all, very little effort to feel victimized.
Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some of the most difficult things that have happened to me.
Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.
The Zen philosophy posits that 'human beings suffer' and 'the cause of suffering is desire.' The way to put an end to suffering is to stop wanting everything, all the time.
A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.
In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.
Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place and time.
Stress is a designer ailment that many of the so-called afflicted suffer from with pride.
I suffer from the disease of writing books and being ashamed of them when they are finished.
Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.
That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.
There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.