Suffering Quotes

I want people to suffer less, and I think it's possible.

Governor Romney is suffering from political amnesia.

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters.

It’s certainly true that it’s easier to be patient about change when you’re not personally suffering...

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

If you were the poor, suffering was your currency.

Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.

In a world of plenty, continued suffering is a terrible stain on our conscience. It is inexcusable that we not strive, with every resource at our disposal, to eliminate suffering.

I will never be ok with the suffering of others - that I will likely continue to fight so I must treat it as a marathon race not a sprint.

I have discovered that I cannot ignore the infliction of suffering - especially for my convenience or pleasure! It's as if a puppy is being kicked in front of me. I must try to do something.

It has been a hard lesson to learn, that greatness requires suffering.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

Those who are content suffer no disgrace.

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer famine.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

When you are working really hard and you're really focused on your career, a lot of other things suffer.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my dearest friends have been drawn from those likewise suffering from book madness.

Becoming less focused on the past and future and not resisting the moment is how to overcome fear, physical pain, and all suffering.

If caregivers are not healthy, mentally well-balanced and spiritually sound, then those for whom they care will suffer.

When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.

ٰ"The Most difficult thing but an essential one – is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God.

To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.

I ask one thing: I ask the right to hope and suffer as I do now." Vronsky

I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

I suffer from arachnophobia. I don't mind the tiny spiders so much, it's the ones with their legs covered in thick hair.

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.

The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

Suffering brings the patient to us...the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person.

When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil conscience ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced.

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

I know a lot about women and their suffering, but I still know almost nothing about men.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later intimacy is like that of the first.

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show her how.

Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

The more unhappy you are, the more miserable you are, the more you're going to suffer.

I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.

...to say...that Laetrile should not be continued to be used by those who are suffering from terminal cancer, I would have to hang my head in shame.

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.