Top 100 Quotes About Suffering
#1. Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you're willing to do that, you're never going to get the bigger rewards.
Oleg Cassini
#2. I wasn't born a monster, though my choices certainly have made me one. But I can't stop myself. I can't. Causing pain to others when I'm suffering soothes me.
Mia Asher
#3. If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering these eternal horrible torments and there was nothing I could ever do for them, that, to me, would be Hell.
Richard Carrier
#4. Twenty-fours hours of sleeplessness had made her, in my eyes, anyway, and idealized representation of compassionate, long-suffering women of all ages everywhere.
Kurt Vonnegut
#5. Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined.
Lesley Hazleton
#6. Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
Gautama Buddha
#7. Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha
#8. All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#9. The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L
Oswald Chambers
#10. The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
George Will
#11. There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.
Marcel Proust
#12. There's no other way to say this. The official unemployment rate, which cruelly overlooks the suffering of the long-term and often permanently unemployed as well as the depressingly underemployed, amounts to a Big Lie.
Jim Clifton
#13. You will be consoled according to the greatness of your sorrow and affliction; the greater the suffering, the greater will be the reward.
Magdalena De Pazzi
#14. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
Stephen Richards
#15. It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
Judy Collins
#16. I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life matters and the promotion of understanding, conversation, and planning.
Lisa J. Shultz
#17. The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.
Russ Ramsey
#18. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Rumi
#19. - It's their way. They don't understand suffering like we do. They live with it every day.
- It's not their way. It's the way of Teeleh.
Ted Dekker
#20. I remember what it was ... to be young, very young. When everything, touching and tasting-everything- was so new, and even suffering was wonderful because it was so complete.
James Baldwin
#21. There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.
Leon Bloy
#22. To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.
Joan Lunden
#24. There Will Always Be Suffering
It Flows Through Life Like Water
Nick Cave
#25. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, suffering is also a test of our love for God.
Gregory David Roberts
#26. He had been diagnosed as suffering from atypical schizophrenia. Lord, how he hated that awful-sounding label. It conjured up visions of some deranged maniac escaped from a secure mental hospital.
Etienne De L'Amour
#27. For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.
Tullian Tchividjian
#28. It takes all my strength to do daily tasks. To some people, I'm just a number. I'm a projected food stamps debit card lifetime member. I'm seen as crazy or insane, but it doesn't matter. I know I am bigger than my suffering.
Jacquelyn Nicole Davis
#29. Suffering isn't a moral endowment. People don't always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.
E.L. Doctorow
#30. Mind is the forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, suffering follows. If one speaks or acts with a serene mind, happiness follows.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#31. Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.
John Replogle
#32. In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.
Junichiro Koizumi
#33. What would have been the good of my being plunged into a lot of naked suffering and emotional crisis without any prayer, any Sacrament to stabilize and order it, and make some kind of meaning out of it?
Thomas Merton
#34. Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe.
Christopher Paolini
#35. The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.
Jonathan Ive
#36. What though I cannot meet my bills?
What though I suffer toothache's ills?
What though I swallow countless pills?
W.S. Gilbert
#37. Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.
Simone Weil
#38. It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering
Radhe Maa
#39. Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
George Eliot
#40. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.
Czeslaw Milosz
#42. Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#43. Everything that burns, everything that rips me apart, I want to suffer with my body. I'd rather have a hundred wounds, whips, poisons - than this kind of suffering in the head, this phantom of suffering, which touches me softly and caresses me without ever really hurting.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#44. But slowly, it happened everywhere, in the West and in the East as well, that the journey to wisdom through suffering became a global art form.
Andrew Ramer
#45. Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
John Green
#46. Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
Paulo Coelho
#47. There's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul ...
John Geddes
#48. A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.
David A. Bednar
#49. Compassion is not only relevant to those who are blameless victims, but also to those whose suffering stems from failures, personal weakness, or bad decisions. You know, the kind you and I make every day. Compassion,
Kristin Neff
#50. People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.
Iyanla Vanzant
#51. Acceptance in the mindful context means that even when the unthinkable happens, we honor our self and our experience with dignity and kindness. Rather than turn our back on our own suffering, we treat ourselves as we would a beloved friend.
Heather Stang
#52. Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.
J.R. Ward
#53. While the Second World War brought about untold misery and suffering, it was also a time when the world witnessed extraordinary bravery. Through the collective, heroic efforts of countless men and women, victory was claimed over tyranny and evil.
Sam Kutesa
#54. VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their wit.
Ambrose Bierce
#55. Suffering is primarily a
call for attention, which itself is a movement of love. More than
happiness, love wants growth, the widening and deepening of awareness and consciousness and being. Whatever prevents that, becomes a cause of pain, and love does not shirk from pain.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#56. A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
#57. All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Karen Armstrong
#58. The long lonely cry of a suffering boy he could not help chilled Magnus through to the bone, like cold water seeping through to find a grave. Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.
Even the Nephilim.
Cassandra Clare
#59. Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
Oswald Chambers
#60. How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?
Tom Robbins
#61. I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.
Patti Smith
#62. Chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.
Emmet Fox
#63. There's extra suffering when someone you love dies by their own hand. The ones left breathing got to find their own way to survive and make it through living still.
Sandi Morgan Denkers
#64. You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
Cornel West
#65. God has tortured Theo plenty. If suffering makes noble, then he is a prince.
Donna Tartt
#66. If you're suffering, you're thinking.
Sam Harris
#67. You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere.
Frederick Lenz
#68. We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body.
William Shakespeare
#69. We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.
Sakyong Mipham
#70. The hope of Elevation has to remain something random, impossible to see properly, given not to those who earn it but to those with no discernible right to it. Resentment, fear, loathing, and a tiny, flickering light of hope always just out of reach, that is Hell, yes?
Simon Kurt Unsworth
#71. I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!
Therese Of Lisieux
#72. Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.
Bill Hybels
#73. You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
T. Scott McLeod
#74. We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)
Elie Wiesel
#75. It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.
Nadine Gordimer
#76. Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.
Mahatma Gandhi
#77. At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
Egon Schiele
#78. Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.
Oscar Wilde
#79. That someone would want another human being to suffer, or would even tolerate the idea, for committing no crime at all but being reasonable, is truly frightening. A religion that breeds such people is a genuine plague upon the earth.
Richard Carrier
#80. Suffering is the main condition of the artistic experience.
Samuel Beckett
#81. It is the sort of suffering that cannot be done justice with words. I can say only this - that I suspect it is an anguish from which one never recovers. A walking death.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#82. I do not suffer from Autism, but I do suffer from the way you treat me.
Brad Pitt
#83. The world is futile when viewed through the persona of the body. The body is not simply the physical body but it's the body of knowledge of this world.
Frederick Lenz
#84. Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.
Roger Altman
#85. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#86. Several people have told me that my inability to suffer fools gladly is one of my main weaknesses.
Edsger Dijkstra
#87. A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero.
Ayn Rand
#88. Vain is the word of that philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man.
Epicurus
#89. One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#90. From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
John N. Gray
#91. Some people say: "There is no God; because, if there was a God, God would stop all the suffering." Nonsense! God is oblivious to suffering. God is beyond suffering. That's what makes God, God, by definition.
Frederick Lenz
#92. God does not look at our suffering from afar. It is an intimate event to him. He is the author of every detail, speaking the suffering as it occurs.
Ben Palpant
#93. What you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority
Audre Lorde
#94. True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
Saint Ignatius
#95. If 'one' really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only.
Dada Bhagwan
#96. One does not remember one's own pain. It is the suffering of others that undoes us
Anna Funder
#97. Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
Andrew Greeley
#98. If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
Jack Kevorkian
#99. There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth.
Oscar Wilde
#100. Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?
Clarice Lispector
