Suffering Quotes

If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger, you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation.

Sometimes I think my scars are beautiful, but then I remember not everyone shares the same love of art.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

You are not suffering yesterday or tomorrow. You are only suffering your memory and your imagination.

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

Whoever is present in your spring would more than likely have respected your winter.

On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.

Dream thieves are those who leave their real dreams aside and struggle to pick other people's dreams to work on. They suffer to do attempt what they can't do,

Your willpower to achieve the goal ought to stronger than any obstacle.

Quitting on one's dreams isn't a way out, because all it does is to bring forth some sufferings and quilts in one's life.

If I could just capture each memory in a bottle the maybe you people would understand how much I've suffered, how much I've been through, but most importantly how far I have come.

The cross is the place where heaven meets earth and grace erupts. The cross is the place where Jesus does not simply meet our suffering, but becomes our suffering so as to transform the world.

In times of suffering, don't turn inward to self-pity or outward to revenge, but turn to the lover of your soul, Jesus.

God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

Suffering is always an invitationto awarenessand compassionand action.

Never deprecate another person's sufferings even when imaginary.

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor choices a suffering person has made.

The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system...

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human, ' she said. 'Never forget that.

Not knowing about the ultimate purpose of our lives causes tremendous amounts of suffering.

Love and kindness are most precious where there is endless suffering.

I am enduring temporary sufferings to fulfill my dearest dreams.

...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

When we suffer in silence, we think that we are alone, different, separate. When we share our stories of suffering, we find that we are the same.

Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night.

I can hear your angered silence, Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance, Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart.

Suffering does not only insulate. It drops its victim in an ocean desert where he sees men as distant ships passing. I not only feel alone, but very far away from you all.

A life I didn't choose chose me.

Your soul has a resiliency and a capacity to endure suffering that is beyond anything you can imagine.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.

The years in captivity fuels character development

Priceless virtues are love, peace, joy, kindness, gentleness, goodness, long-suffering, patience faithfulness and self-control.

The past is behind us, " said Boudicca, "but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.

I knew you'd kiss me.""How?" I say. Because I didn't know myself. "Because I am in pain, " He say's. "That's the only way I get your attention.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.

There are far too many silent sufferers.  Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

Sufre mas el que espera siempreque aquel que nunca espero a nadie?Does he who is always waiting suffer more than he who’s never waited for anyone?

Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering.

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

In suffering we find our truest selves.

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUntil it has been on his back

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...