Suffering Quotes

Suffering is universal.

We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors . . . But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters.

What happened?" "During the kiss?" "No, with you and Caroline." "Oh," he said. And then after a second, "Caroline is no longer suffering from personhood.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith while your physical muscles begin to atrophy.

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer.

It's death, that's what I'm suffering from. The systematic encroachment of the big D.

You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'

They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

If Obama's a tyrant, then he's pretty lame for a tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture? Very few.

There are so many talented young writers named Jonathan, with whom by comparison I suffer terribly.

In the long run, however much damage we come through, Obama's vision is the one that's going to be left standing. It's a question of how much pain and suffering America has to endure in the meantime.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, what a mess I am, I thought, what a fool, how foolish and narrow, how worthless, how pinched and pathetic, how helpless.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering.

I can discover no political evil in suffering bullies, sharpers, and rakes, to rid the world of each other by a method of their own; where the law hath not been able to find an expedient.

Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight; they just don't know where to look.

The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

In this astonishing novel Amirrezvani reminds us what all human hearts suffer and dare. Equal of the Sun is an irresistible novel.

There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.

There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

Though we may not always be able to avoid pain, we can choose how much we suffer.

People in love, it is well known, suffer extreme conceptual delusions, the most common of these being that other people find your condition as thrilling and eye-watering as you do yourselves.

The love that made Him to suffer passeth as far all His pains as Heaven is above Earth.

I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.

As for me, I had found love, and that was a gift worth suffering for.

I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.

I hammered him with my fists. He just stood and took it. He didn't suffer graciously, he looked pissed off to no end. But he let me hit him. And he didn't hit me back.

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

You couldn't expect anyone else to share your suffering. You had to carry your pain alone.

Ah, but depression - that is what we all hate. We the afflicted. Whereas the relatives and shrinks, the tribal ring, they rather welcome it: you are quiet and you suffer.

To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.

For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.