Suffering Quotes

Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way

Ethically, she couldn't cause the suffering of any living thing. Logically, bacon cheeseburgers were delicious.

We rise up And we fall downOnly to rise again

The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.

We put ourselves through hell and that is hell.

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job...

Love hurts because we think that's what love is.

If something came out of the deal, it couldn’t make things any worse for us than they already were, I thought. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Hell has no true bottom.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

I understood that I was suffering because I couldn't make anyone else around me feel better.

Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal.

An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely destructive.

Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world.

I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.

Once past the comfort zone in either direction, humans soon lost the ability to discriminate bad from worse.

We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.

Behind Calvary's cross is the throne of heaven.

Christianity is like a nail, " he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

Love is something worth suffering for...

Fact One: Races are won or lost in key moments. Fact Two: Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

What can be achieved with suffering can be achieved without it.

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he may a very strong one.

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I had lost even the ability to suffer.

But there is no value to suffering!

To be wounded by the suffering of others is a gift of the Holy Spirit.

While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.

...that the doctor being himself a mortal man, should be diligent and tender in relieving his suffering patients, inasmuch as he himself must one day be a like sufferer.

Human suffering is caused mainly by ideas, emotions, and thoughts which are the handiwork of the human itself.

It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.

Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.

Suffering is not a consequence, it is about permission.

The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.

Suffering, my child?...Suffering is the divine trigger you can press..for you to accomplish your dreams...

The suffering that is there in this world is such that it will fall off (go away), but people give support to it.

Suffering is the common lot of man.

No one suffers as beautifully as you do.

Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!

What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?

Radically accept, release and allow suffering to move through you like a passing storm.

What is the ROI (return on investment) of your suffering?

I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.

And so beneath the weight lay IAnd suffered death, but could not die.

Most people would rather suffer through a bad situation than take the steps needed to free themselves, especially if they knew that by freeing themselves, it would make them hunted.

We don’t have a good excuse before God if our nation and people are suffering as a result of our complacency

Suffering often clarifies what really matters in life.