Suffering Quotes

The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.

You get [something] in your body that is the suffering or the problem, and then you [add] a second one, which is worry. In both cases, [it is] pointless.

It is always possible to be happy by ignoring the sufferings of the millions! People with high conscience can never attain this kind of insensitive happiness!

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

The individual who violates the rules in a zealous search for an answer to the problem may overstep the bounds and thereby suffer the loss of his relationships to the organized medical profession.

Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.

She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.

You can and you must expect suffering.

You can't do God's work without suffering.

Suffering, if it is accepted together, borne together, is joy.

As far as I can see, only psychoanalysis can compete with Christians in their love of drawn-out suffering.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love.

Defeat exists but not suffering. A true warrior knows that when he loses a battle, he is improving the skill with which he wields a sword. He will be able to fight more skilfullly next time.

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

How you approach the problem of suffering depends on how you approach life itself. There are only two ways. Either meaning is surrounded by matter, or matter is surrounded by meaning.

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

There is a difference between having a vision and suffering from a hallucination.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

The cause of so much suffering and pain and one of the impediments to our spiritual progress, is the conditioning of expecting things to go our way, even in our spiritual life.

I can understand; you are really in a mess and there is no way out. I have heard that there are three rings of love: the engagement ring, the wedding ring and the suffer-ring.

I will no longer confer, differ, refer, defer, prefer, or suffer. I renounce the whole tribe of fero. I embrace absolute life.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad...; one suffers through the many for the few.

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

Struggling is mandatory. Suffering is optional.

Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.

We suffer equal pain from the pertinacious adhesion of unwelcome images, as from the evanescence of those which are pleasing and useful.

God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping.

I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.

Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.

Have you any idea of what you’ve unleashed? (Hades) Cruelty, pestilence, wrath, violence, ultimate suffering…what other gifts did the gods bestow on him?

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

May new sufferings torment your soul.

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.

Suffering is not an elective; it is a core course in the University of Life.

I think that capitalism has just gone too far. And it is actually not limited to the United States. The excesses of capitalism is making us suffer all over the world right now.

As a human being, we have everything we need. It's enough suffering to give us incentive to go on, but not so much that we don't know where to turn.

Patience obtains everything.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.