Suffering Quotes

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but to prevent me from enjoying my own life.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

Unless you are oblivious to your own suffering, you have no right to be oblivious to other people's suffering.

Without raising human consciousness, whatever we do in the world will only lead to more and more suffering.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Africa is always only portrayed as a continent of suffering, but most figures are vastly exaggerated.

Jesus didn't suffer so we wouldn't have to suffer. He suffered so that we would know how to suffer.

none but the unhappy are worthy of friends; if your soul had never suffered never could you have entered mine.

If our bodies aren't being taken care of then our work starts to suffer and we're not getting the most from our daily lives.

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.

The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.

And this you can know- fear the time when Manself will not suffer and die for a concept, for this one quality is man, distinctive in the universe.

No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule.

There is a general decline of taste for classical dance,ce, which is neglected and this must be developed from the grassroots. There is so much of razzle-dazzle... that classical dance suffers.

For the millions that suffer unjustly, the Confessing Church does not yet have a heart.

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

The truth is not delicate and it does not suffer from denial—the truth only dies when true stories are untold.

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies.

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

I definitely prefer to be in a band. There's too many solo people, and bands are suffering. There's too many great bands that have split up because somebody's got an ego, and then he goes solo.

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

The uneasy ghost of Marx must suffer the torments of the damned at the truth glaring from the pages of history that one does not abolish property by transferring it to the state.

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over the suffering of the entire globe is surely something new.

You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.

Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant.

You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.