Suffering Quotes

Recognize that everyone suffers in their own life, even if you don't see it; even if you think they've got it easy.

It has always been, and will always be true; those who do the most good suffer more than most do.

Once self-killing is an acceptable answer, how do you logically limit it to the dying? What about the disabled, who may live longer and suffer more?

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.

All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

The doctrine of a material hell in its effect was to chill and deaden the sympathies, predispose men to inflict suffering, and to retard the march of civilization.

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?

When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

Life shall be built in doing and suffering and creating.

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

When I was 13, I really used to skip down the street, happy in thinking, "Oh, well, someone's suffering pain in order for me to feel this pleasure."

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering...

If life really begins at forty, then all poor people die in their teens.

It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love.

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.

The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.I knew that a part of him would never be the same.They cracked more than his ribs.

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

God's 'permission' of evil so multiplied is not simply to be accounted for by his respecting our free will. He takes the harms we mutually inflict and overrules them for our good.

I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.

But why all these questions?Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.Don't be afraid, the only way to avoid that suffering would be to refuse to love.

When we see that some suffering or some pain is coming up, we don't try to run away from it. In fact, we have to go back and take care of it.

I’m not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it’s not really pain.

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.

Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen to it deeply, and to have a deep look into its nature.

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. The luminous weep, if only over those in darkness.

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

If the immediate and direct purpose of our life is not suffering then our existence is the most ill-adapted to its purpose in the world.

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate, with the chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

He was too well accustomed to suffering, and had suffered too much where he was, to bewail the prospect of change very severely.

A suffering person does not need a lecture—he needs a listener.

[The Lord] does go with us through our sufferings, and He awaits us as we emerge on the other side of the tunnel of testing—into the light of His glorious presence to live with Him forever!

Jesus suffered more than any other person in human history.

The book of Job does not set out to answer the problem of suffering, but to proclaim a God so great that no answer is needed.

I believe one reason that God allows poverty and suffering is so that His followers may demonstrate Christ’s love, mercy, and comfort to [others].