Suffering Quotes

I want a dress the color of suffering

Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

The worst tragedy is that this uncontrolled mind steals our consciousness away from Krishna and that is the beginning, the essence of all suffering.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

We get sufferings in life so that we become sober and listen to Krishna's message.

Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you.

If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.

What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces. It has simply proved to be a misery. At the most it can be just a convenience.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

The path of things is silent. Will they suffer a speaker to go with them?

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

The whole of what we know is a system of compensation. Every defect in one manner is made up in another. Every suffering is rewarded; every sacrifice is made up; every debt is paid.

I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

Suffering brings me so close to God.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

I don't suffer from an abundance of politeness.

I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

Sometimes I suspect most of the media commentariat are suffering from Munchausen syndrome.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.

Guys do ridiculous things for love." Adrian reached into his pocket and held up a pack of cigarettes. "Do you know how badly I want one of these right now? Yet I suffer, Rose. All for you.

Only liberals know how to make you freer on the job, which is where most of us suffer the gravest indignities in our lives.

God does not owe me an explanation for what He does in my life. And if I am looking for that to feel better about my suffering, then I'm not going to get it.

[A pariah is] something like a martyr with more suffering and less class.

Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.

To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

Racism was never acceptable to the people who suffer from it.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

Nowadays, most women just assume they have a right to be in the workplace, and any kind of discrimination they suffer is sort of more creeping.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.