Suffering Quotes
I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
I think we make our own hell down here during our life times- the penalty for not being true; the punishment for fear; we suffer the consequences
I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.
The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.
Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.
The more you have loved and have allowed yourself to suffer because of your love, the more you will be able to let your heart grow wider and deeper.
When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.
The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.
I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.
There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
As a Christian, part of my obligation is to alleviate suffering. Explicit recognition of that in the Methodist tradition is one reason I'm comfortable in this church.
To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.
Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.
Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.
Does not any limit imposed upon one inspire a desire to go beyond it? Does not our keenest suffering arise when our free will is crossed?
Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.
The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.
Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?' 'He's a teddy bear,' I said. Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal. (Rene and Kate on Jim!)
Obeying orders just to obey is the mark of a person who has ceased to think. Remember, it is better to suffer for doing what is right rather than for doing what is wrong.
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.
If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.
Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared.
Imagine losing fingernails, Harry! That really puts our sufferings into perspective, doesn't it?
The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
