Suffering Quotes

If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution.

There is no virtue inherent in un-constructive suffering.

That divide between the rich and poor is so crazy, because even white kids are suffering now.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

There is little character or loveliness in the face of someone who has shunned risk, avoided suffering and rejected life

When I was young, I remember having a particular pain about injustice. Suffering hurt me.

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

I have not lost the hope that the masses will refuse to bow to the Moloch of war but they will rely upon their own capacity for suffering to save their country's honour.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

The role of the human brain was to rationalize suffering.

No one should advocate any peaceful suffering to black people, unless the black - white man is going to practice the same kind of peaceful suffering.

Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't.

I thought, I might not look my best, I've forgotten half the words to my songs and I'm suffering from post-traumatic stress, but I've just got to get out there and do it.

To a great extent, suffering is a sort of need felt by the organism to make itself familiar with a new state, which makes it uneasy, to adapt its sensibility to that state.

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

We were resigned to suffering, thinking that we loved outside ourselves, and we perceive that our love is a function of our sorrow, that our love perhaps is our sorrow.

He who suffers, remembers.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

We need to recognize that part our political problem is that we do not participate effectively, that we suffer from a kind of mental slumber.

Romance, in its earliest surviving form, was called ‘erotika pathemata’ by the Greeks - tales of erotic suffering.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

If Mr. Trump gets precisely the policies he says he wants, then the economy will suffer a recession.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

Most of our stress and suffering come not from events, but from our thoughts. Reframe from negative thoughts, and stress subsides.

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.