Suffering Quotes

Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

Government should stand behind its currency and credit and the bank deposits of the nation. No individual should suffer a loss of money through depreciation or inflated currency of Bank bankruptcy.

He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.

Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

At the end of my suffering/there was a door.

Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there.

Patience means self-suffering.

Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men

Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

When people suffer, their relationships usually suffer as well. Period. And we all suffer because, as the Buddha says, that's the nature of being human and wanting stuff we don't always get.

We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.

Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern right from wrong.

Sweetheart, wake up; you've destroyed the house and I need you to suffer for it.

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Suffering is the demand that experience be different from what it is.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. (Igjugarjuk)

Caught in the self-centered dream, only suffering; holding to self-centered thoughts, exactly the dream; each moment, life as it is, the only teacher; being just this moment, compassion's way.

No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

Think lightly of hell, and you will think lightly of the cross. Think little of the sufferings of lost souls, and you will soon think little of the Savior who delivers them.

You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.

The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Suffering is a big informer, a big catalyst for creation. You take your sadness, your despair, your sense of injustice, and you put it in your work.