Everyone Is Suffering Quotes

#1. Everyone is longing for love, everyone is suffering from the needs and wants, so be loving, kind, and compassionate to everyone.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it is considered normal. This incessant mental noise prevents you from finding that realm of inner stillness that is inseparable from Being.

Eckhart Tolle

#3. I would continue to suffer,but knowing that everyone else is suffering too would make the pain more bearable.If only a few of us are condemned to suffer terrible tragedies,then there is something very wrong with the creation.

Paulo Coelho

#4. We are all both victims and victimizers. Just as everyone suffers, no one is innocent of causing suffering themselves.

Tullian Tchividjian

#5. Without enlightenment, everything in life is harsh. Sooner or later you see everyone you love die, unless you die first, of course. This causes you to suffer.

Frederick Lenz

#6. We are in front of a global scandal of around one billion - one billion people who still suffer from hunger today. We cannot look the other way and pretend this does not exist. The food available in the world is enough to feed everyone.

Pope Francis

#7. The universe isn't based on magic - there isn't one set of circumstances for the good and one for the evil. Everyone suffers sometime. The question is what you do with your suffering.

Sylvain Reynard

#8. But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

Tom Dolby

#9. Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world.

Frederick Lenz

#10. My biggest dream in the world is for everyone to become vegetarian, so there won't be any more suffering.

Alicia Silverstone

#11. Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.

Frederick Lenz

#12. A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

Debbie Ford

#13. Goaltending is a suffering position. Your equipment protects you from injury, but not from pain, every time you go out there. And if you allow a goal, the red lights go on for everyone to see. But you get to be a hero too!

Kevin Constantine

#14. Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. - Antonio Porchia

David James Duncan

#15. In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel "burnout" setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself. The point is to have a long-term perspective.

Dalai Lama

#16. There is going to come a day when everyone here is going to need keen observation and wit to ridicule George W. Bush. But when that day comes, all we're going to have are tired puns and goofy looks. Because as you would say, we're suffering from the soft bigotry of low expectorations.

Jon Stewart

#17. It dawns on you one day ... how precious your life is and how not okay it is for anyone, ever, to cause you any amount of suffering, ever. Then the next time you step out the door you look at everyone and you're thinking, My life is precious and you're not allowed to hurt me.

C. JoyBell C.

#18. Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.

Dalai Lama

#19. You are certainly unique. Everyone is unique. Nobody has ever suffered quite like you before because nobody has ever been you before.

Robertson Davies

#20. War: first, one hopes to win;
then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering;
in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

Karl Kraus

#21. It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#22. At this very moment, I am suffering - as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Emil Cioran

#23. It's just a storm in a tea cup,' someone says
The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

Paulo Coelho

#24. I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner's relationship with the person who's died.

Sue Miller

#25. If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves up in monasteries? What's the good of solving your personal suffering if the solution keeps you isolated from everyone else's suffering?

Tim Ward

#26. As for the bitter herbs ... To see everyone with tears coursing down their faces, laughing and gasping at the same time, is fun and also makes the point - bitter herbs must be really bitter to experience the suffering ...

Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger

#27. Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.

Gautama Buddha

#28. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

#29. Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,

Katharine Hepburn

#30. Everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.

Brandon Sanderson

#31. Success is not a pie with a limited number of pieces. The success of others has very little bearing on your success. You and everyone you know can become successful without anyone suffering setbacks, harm, or downturns.

Denis Waitley

#32. Everyone suffers; life is pain; and death is the final punctuation at the end of that sentence, so deal with it. I really think you can manage pain and suffering by living in fullness and being true to yourself and all those seemingly vapid platitudes.

Sufjan Stevens

#33. Wolves exhibiting strange behaviour
caught in traps and thrashing about, injured by other creatures or by bullets, pups suffering from epilepsy
are attacked and killed by their pack members. But here everyone is human and must try to understand each other's mystery. Each other's pain.

Nadeem Aslam

#34. Everyone suffers at least one bad betrayal in their lifetime. It's what unites us. The trick is not to let it destroy your trust in others when that happens. Don't let them take that from you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#35. Do not be afraid Everyone before you has died You cannot stay Any more than a baby can stay forever in the womb Leave behind all you know All you love Leave behind pain and suffering This is what Death is. - The Book of Living and Dying (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)

Christopher Moore

#36. It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

Louise L. Hay