Suffering Quotes

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

Those who have been made great have first suffered.

I wouldn't wish my consort to suffer ennui.

We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

As usual, the people who are poorest - the blacks, Hispanics and disabled people - are going to suffer more than anyone else under the [Barack] Obama administration.

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

I was always attracted to characters that were in some level of turmoil or suffering because I had so much of that in my own life and I wanted to channel it. I was always into darker things.

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from the committee to change the constitution.

And financial problems are exactly the same thing. You're humiliated. You're ashamed. You're embarrassed about telling anyone that you are suffering financial difficulties.

All change in life comes from within. It is what's in humanity's soul, not what's in humanity's wallet, that will purchase our freedom from humanity's suffering.

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms.

Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being.

If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore.

If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society.

The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation.

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.

Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?

We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

A lot of people are suffering in America.

The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

Wherever there's injustice, oppression, and suffering, America will show up six months late and bomb the country next to where it's happening.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

I just know that young people suffer, and I also know music is one of the things that help you get through - music and friends.

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too much weight on the scale in favor of war. Empathy can really lead to violence.

I think [H.P. Lovecraft] recognized what he was dealing with, he was dealing with demons. And he was dealing with creatures that're suffering. There's no way out of this suffering.

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

I never got that show - Les Miz. It's about the French guy, right, who steals a loaf of bread, and then he suffers for the rest of his life. For Toast. Get over it!

How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.