Suffering Quotes

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

Thunderstorms are as much our friends as the sunshine.

As long as one suffers one lives.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

The world is already yours - why try to conquer it?

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

After all, what is suffering but an awareness of suffering?

He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.

My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.

Not suffering, but faint heart, is worst of woes.

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described that way. The term is "long-suffering."

The civilization of a state should be measured by the amount of suffering it prevents and the degree of happiness it makes possible for its citizens.

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.

I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

A nation that knows how to work will never suffer.

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq are suffering today.

Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.