Suffering Quotes
We turn pain into suffering by adding on all kinds of beliefs, interpretations and judgments to it.
No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free, but facts are sacred.
Madhouses are houses made on purpose to cause suffering . . . I cannot stand any longer the screams of these creatures.
About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives.
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.
That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.
Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.
Not a few patients, however, suffering from certain forms of mental disorder, regain a high degree of insight into their mental condition in what might be termed a flash of divine enlightenment.
Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.
Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.
The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering.
When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
We mustn't romanticize suffering. It can turn people bitter and hard, although it does seem to have been almost indispensable in making people into the kind of leaders that we admire.
Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected... Suffering and being rejected are not the same.
Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.
True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.
Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can exert their virtues.
Industry suffers from the managerial dogma that for the sake of stability and continuity, the company should be independent of the competence of individual employees.
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.
Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.
Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.
Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.
This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.
Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.
But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness.
Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.
But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!
And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?
Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.
...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.