Suffering Quotes

At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.

Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering.

The success of sainthood is the success attained by struggle and suffering and achieved by faith; a success of honor, of clean hands and pure heart, of service to man and glory to God.

Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

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.

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.

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

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love.

There are, of course, two kinds of suffering, that which has a reward and that which doesn't.

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

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

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

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions, and that the return of this information to the public marks my end.

And the law, that is the perfection of reason, cannot suffer anything that is inconvenient.

It is better, saith the law, to suffer a mischief that is peculiar to one, than an inconvenience that may prejudice many.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that ‘do what makes you happy’ thing in check.

Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

The purpose of the world is for youto be lost in it, ultimately. The purpose of the world is for you to suffer, to create the suffering that seems to be what is needed for the awakening to happen.

The more suffering you create, the more suffering comes to you.

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

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

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

I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.