Suffering Quotes

Present suffering is not enjoyable, but life would be worth little without it. The difference between iron and steel is fire, but steel is worth all it costs.

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

The heaviest of my crosses was that I could do nothing to lighten the cross my mother was suffering.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

The prevalence of mental illness compels me to give it - and the people suffering from it - a voice.

My warning is: Be careful Angela Merkel. If you don't see the suffering that has been imposed on the rest of the European people, then Germany will make itself hated.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

It is the crushed grape that gives out the blood-red wine: it is the suffering soul that breathes the sweetest melodies.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Comedians don't have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

By dehumanizing others, among many other things, these people are also aiding the neocons and other forces of darkness to justify more war, more suffering, and more destruction.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity.

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.

Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

Attachment is the root of all suffering.

Do not suffer interim losses, relish and appreciate them

Some things hurt, you know, and there's pain. But we magnify the suffering of it often, I think, by our reactions.

Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does.