Suffering Quotes
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory; against our pleasure we are temperate.
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
Would you rather suffer 90 minutes or 90 years? (Regarding a Bikram Yoga session that takes exactly 90 minutes.)
In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.
It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.
Have you ever heard of a woman bloody dictator or tyrant? I think not. If there were more women in power, I think we would have more harmony, more engagement and less suffering and less conflict.
The significant element that is common to Rivera, Siqueros, Picasso, Pollock, Van Gogh and Frida Kahlo is the expression of pain.
There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.
I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.
In the school of discipleship, suffering for Christ is never an elective course, but a required core class.
That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?
...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.
Suffering is there because there's something we're not understanding about our full divinity, and there are so many ways we could go into understanding.
There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.
If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
We have a relational problem with those who are suffering or who are different from us. All of us are most comfortable around people who are like us culturally and economically.
If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
Many Christians suffer because they're too busy seeking carnal knowledge instead of the Word of God.
What we suffer, what we endure, what we muff, what we kill, what we miss, what we are guilty of, is done by us, as individuals, in private.
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
Real love is not based on attachment, but on altruism. In this case, your compassion will remain as a humane response to suffering as long as beings continue to suffer.
We are all basically the same human beings, who seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. Everybody is my peer group. Your feeling "I am of no value" is wrong. Absolutely wrong.
When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.
Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching.
What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.
Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.