Suffering Quotes

Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it — that is what you must do.

And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave.

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]

People who are poor, they suffer a lot. And people drink a lot and people take a lot of downers and there's a lot of unemployment.

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

Suffering is an illusion.

It came to me that I should teach this truth for it is real happiness and joy. The cessation of suffering is possible.

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

If mourning is denied outlet, the result will be suffering.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism.

Better suffer ill, then doe ill. [Better suffer ill, than do ill.]

He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.

He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.

An animal has to suffer for us old-school Latinos to get what we want.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

As we sin, so do we suffer

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

Rather than being taught to accept ourselves, we were trained to make ourselves socially acceptable. And whenever we fail, we suffer inside.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that's what's going to keep us moving ahead.

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.

I believe strongly that to whom much is given, much is required - we are a blessed nation - and that the United States could affect suffering in a positive way.

We believe in peace. We strongly believe in freedom. Where we see suffering we will help. And rather than try to offset a nation, why not join nations together to achieve kind of big objectives?

The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

Pain is a message asking for our help.

Attachment has to do with suffering, so it's really close to Buddhism, because Buddhism wants to relieve you from suffering; you're supposed to escape from suffering.

society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.

... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

Perhaps the worst thing about suffering is that it finally hardens the hearts of those around it.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

The soul bride shall never be a widow, she shall never suffer sorrow.

I am finding it very hard to get my novel started. I suffer from stylistic abscesses; and sentences keep itching without coming to a head.

The birds suffer their suffering each in a lifetime, forgetting it as they go.

I suffer from overheating quite easily.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

Dr. Flint had sworn that he would make me suffer, to my last day, for this new crime against him, as he called it; and as long as he had me in his power he kept his word

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.