Suffering Quotes

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

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.

When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life

At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful.

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

A troubled life beats having no life at all

The greatest bloodbaths in the history of the human race were recorded in the twentieth century in countries that sought to eliminate God, worship, and faith.

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it?

There's just no more compelling a story, no more compelling an issue, no more compelling a locus of human suffering than Sudan.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

For wherein is life sweet to him who suffers grief?

It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

We learn from the things we suffer.

A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.

We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!

But we must not suffer over the suffering.

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

If a few minutes of suffering could make me so angry, what would years of it do? Even a stone can be worn down with enough rain.

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together.

The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

Why should the cotton growers suffer if there is shortage of wheat?

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

The more I suffer, the more I love.

In a world of massive wealth and income inequality, Europe must support Greece’s efforts to build an economy which creates more jobs and income, not more unemployment and suffering.