Suffering Quotes

A body seriously out of equilibrium, either with itself or with its environment, perishes outright. Not so a mind. Madness and suffering can set themselves no limit.

The received image of a writer is that of an unproductive sensitive who suffers from the vapors, is enslaved by his gonads, falls victim to romantic swoons and passes out at deadlines.

Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots of them go mad.

Women will no longer be silent when they suffer injustices against them.

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Trouble, hardship, difficulty, pain, suffering, conflict, tragedy, evil - they're all part of the [Christian] Story. Indeed, the problem of evil is the reason there's any Story at all.

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

One must laugh and weep, love, work, enjoy and suffer, in short vibrate as much as possible in all his being.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

Ich glaube sogar, durch Leidensk a« mpfe k o« nnten dieTiere zu Menschen werden. I believe that by suffering even animals could be made human.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.

The right to suffer is one of the joys of a free economy.

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

We urge you to understand the Palestinian reality, and not to rush in and impose conditions and demands that ignore this reality and increase the suffering of the people.

The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

When you exist here only as a body and a mind, suffering is inevitable.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

I'm not much of a multitasker, and when I'm in productive mode, organizational things suffer.

But the question is, whether the animals who endure such sufferings of various kinds for the service and entertainment of man, would accept existence upon the terms on which they have it.

Suffering over something is proof positive of its importance.

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same things I do.

There is no way to be in cyclic existence without creating the causes of suffering.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

Irritable Judges suffer from a bad case of premature adjudication.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

Humble us, O God, under your mighty hand, and let us rise, not as professionals, but as witnesses and partakers of the sufferings of Christ.

Don't beat yourself. That's the worst kind of defeat you'll ever suffer.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Acknowledgement: Understanding and compassion for others and their suffering is the next step. Put yourself in the shoes of people who don't have the luxury of being wasteful.

The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly.

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

Being physically fit doesn't mean anything if the mind isn't fit and being fit in the mind is not worth much if the body is suffering.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

The denial of suffering is, in fact a better definition of illness than its acceptance.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

Man must suffer to be wise.

Passion is always suffering, even when gratified.

The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

one would suffer a great deal to be happy.

Inconsistency has been overpraised by people who do not expect to suffer from it.