Suffering Quotes

No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.

Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.

We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.

It is actually possible to become amateurs in suffering.

To become a man was something, but to become a man of sorrows was far more; to bleed, and die, and suffer.

Suffering saints are living seed.

There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.

It is good to be attracted out of ourselves, to be forced to take a near view of the sufferings, the privations, the efforts, the difficulties of others.

When you love someone, you don't want them to suffer at all.

Lydia was the kind of friend whom people referred to as a 'party favor' -- always fun to be around but she doesn't have any patience for suffering unless it's her own.

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against what one does.

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

Are you willing to die for what you believe in? The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

When there is suffering, we look for a reason. That reason is easiest found within oneself.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

I'm suffering from oxygen deprivation. It's overwhelming watching your career go by.

No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.

Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.

Even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering.

It's fashionable to be indifferent to other people's suffering

Friday's turmoil in global markets looks set to continue to exert a dominant force on the foreign exchange markets. The usual trend when U.S. stocks fall is that the U.S. dollar suffers.

The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.

When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

We are the creators of our own happiness and suffering, for everything originates in the mind.

As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

External circumstances can contribute to one's happiness and well-being, but ultimately happiness and suffering depend on the mind.

Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

Looking at various means of developing compassion, I think empathy is an important factor: the ability to appreciate others' suffering.

Contemplating the suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.

Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness.

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness determines our suffering or not.

So long as space remains So long as sentient beings' Suffering remains I will remain In order to help, In order to serve.

I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms.

Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.

Philosophers tend to radically underestimate the distance between abstract principles (such as "reduce suffering") and what it might actually mean for people to act on them.