Suffering Quotes
One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.
Smile, my friends, my soulful friends, smile. Let us smile. True, this world of ours is full of suffering and excruciating pangs, but that is no reason why we should not smile.
The average person suffers from three delusions: 1) That he is a good driver 2) That he has a good sense of humor and 3) That he is a good listener.
Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.
If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.
When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.
God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.
Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.
If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.
There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.
There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.
A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.
If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.
I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.
Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear, and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom.
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.
You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.
one does not remember one’s own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.
Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.
Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.
It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.
Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.
Without hope of reward Provide help to others. Bear suffering alone, And share your pleasures with beggars.
... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.
... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.
I suffer mornings most of all I feel so powerless and small By ten o'clock I'm back in bed Fighting the jury in my head
Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?
Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.
Happiness of any given life is to be measured, not by its joys and pleasures, but by the extent to which it has been free from suffering-from positive evil.