Suffering Quotes

She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

Not knowing whether to wait or to forget is the worst kind of suffering.

I do not really know if it is a gain to exchange the crown of martrydom with two or three years of life in freedom. But I leave the good Lord to decide.

What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

The root of suffering is resisting the certainty that no matter what the circumstances, uncertainty is all we truly have.

The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.

If you work with your mind, that will alleviate all the suffering that seems to come from the outside.

To put it concisely, we suffer when we resist the noble and irrefutable truth of impermanence and death.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

If you want to gain market share at your competitor's expense - look for a customer that's suffering from too much complexity and simplify it.

We are all united by the phenomenon that we have a body and that body is universally the same, more or less. If we lose sight of that perspective, everything can desperately suffer.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

Doing 'EastEnders' wasn't exactly suffering, but my soul's not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn't pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don't we?

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.

I do feel like all the people I meet, all the people I'm in discussions with, if I'm working with somebody, I sense the same energy that everybody is suffering from the same predicament.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

When we ignore the world outside the walls we suffer-as does it.

It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

Nature makes us buy her presents at the price of so many sufferings that it is doubtful whether she deserves most the name of parent or stepmother.

God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.

It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.

Suspicion is ever strong on the suffering side.

Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

The mind is sicker than the sick body; in contemplation of its sufferings it becomes hopeless. [Lat., Corpore sed mens est aegro magis aegra; malique In circumspectu stat sine fine sui.]

There's nothing more heart-breaking than watching your children suffer.

I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.

I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?