Suffering Quotes

Don't let yourself suffer needlessly, find a need to suffer.

A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

Without pain and suffering, we would be nothing

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

When speaking of love, and suffering a broken heart, the student said, 'You can't drown if you vow to never swim again.' To which the master replied, 'You will also never choke if you don't eat.'

Suffering passes; having suffered never passes.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

You'll need to suffer to make any real art.

I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.

Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

Inner darkness, which we call ignorance, is the root of suffering. The more inner light that comes, the more darkness will diminish. This is the only way to achieve salvation or nirvana.

The main cause of suffering is egoistic desire for one's own comfort and happiness.

Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just go for the ride freely, no matter what happens.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.

Heaven is the experience of being completely present to all that is, all that you are, and all that you have to give. Are you choosing to live in heaven or suffer in hell?

To those African-Americans suffering in our country, I say, what do you have to lose? Vote for Trump, I'm going to fix it.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.

Beyond the shadow of a doubt, food was more important than a woman's suffering.

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

All people believe their suffering is greater than others.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

Look at the big picture of the wheel of life. Above it, there is a Buddha. He is pointing, not towards the wheel, but away from it. He is indicating that there is something else - nirvana.

No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.

You are treading the path to your greatness: no one shall follow you here! Your passage has effaced the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

I wanted to discuss the suffering of humanity in general, but perhaps we'd better confine ourselves to the sufferings of children.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.