Suffering Quotes

Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it's better for my health and for the environment.

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

The avoidance of that which causes you pain does not produce enlightenment. It produces avoidance. Religion is the avoidance of pain and suffering.

Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

This year [2015] has shown with painful clarity that our existing systems, approaches, and funding, are inadequate to the task at hand, and to the amount of human suffering that is ongoing.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

I didn’t create poverty. This church didn’t create poverty. Poverty is not an issue, human suffering is not an issue at all, they were there before the creation of mankind.

Human suffering is articulated in language; communication is how we seek help, consolation, etc.

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

By working to alleviate the suffering of animals you are working at the cause level of human suffering.

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

You can't use your camera as a shield against human suffering.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

Military necessity does not admit of cruelty - that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, . . . nor of torture to extort confessions.

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.

To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.

Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.

By suffering comes wisdom.

Wisdom cometh by suffering.

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

Making it a valid law to learn by suffering.

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.

If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.

That's when civil liberty suffers - when we think special times justify the diminution of civil liberties. And I'm not going to accept that.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Suffering gives us no special rights.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

Your soul suffers if you live superficially.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.