Suffering Is Caused Quotes

#1. All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction

Dalai Lama XIV

#2. Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#3. All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation

Vivian Amis

#4. All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

Timothy Leary

#5. Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Mary Lyon

#6. Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Stephen Levine

#7. All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".

Barbara Brennan

#8. Much of our suffering is caused by our false perceptions and attachment to mental images. We assume things to be true without really knowing whether they are true or not, then create a world of hurt for ourselves and others.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#9. Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

Sigmund Freud

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

Shai Tubali

#11. How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

Will Durant

#12. suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behaviour patterns of one's own mind.

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

Ezra Taft Benson

#14. The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#15. Why is it anytime somethin's different, it's automatically wrong? That single principle has caused more suffering and tragedy than any other in the history of the world. Our actions make is good or evil, Ana. Nothin more. Nothin' less. (Grey Eyes, Forever Trilogy Part One)

Brandon Alston

#16. I was in a lot of pain, you see. But it had been caused by an abstract blade. What I mean is, the pain was physical, the cause wasn't. I suppose some people would just say I was suffering from a broken heart. Or you might say it's just life.

Anonymous

#17. Israel's creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.

Harvey Pekar

#18. I am in a profession that has succeeded because of its ability to fix. If your problem is fixable, we know just what to do. But if it's not? The fact that we have had no adequate answers to this question is troubling and has caused callousness, inhumanity, and extraordinary suffering.

Atul Gawande

#19. To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#20. Suffering is always hard to quantify - especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer's. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer's destroys the mind - and in the process, annihilates the very self.

Jeffrey Kluger

#21. It is important to stress the ways that people are different from each other, because so much of the suffering that we experience in our relationships with other people is caused by the fact that we are blind to their point of view.

Helen Palmer

#22. Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

Alice Walker

#23. Sin - plain, old-fashioned sin, the self-same sin which caused Adam's downfall - is what we are all suffering from today, and it will do us far more harm than good to try to dress it up with a fancy, more attractive label.

Billy Graham

#24. Suffering is not caused by pain but by resisting pain.

Anonymous

#25. I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

Ingmar Bergman

#26. It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#27. The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

Orhan Pamuk

#28. [On her wearing pants:] The greatest sorrows from which women suffer today are those physical, moral and mental ones, that are caused by their unhygienic manner of dressing! The want of the ballot is but a toy by comparison.

Mary Edwards Walker

#29. My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

#30. The greater part of the suffering in the world is caused not by wicked intents and hard hearts, but by the careless desire to shirk unpleasant facts, and the soft-heartedness that will assuage momentary pain at the price of making a life-long cripple, either mentally, morally, or physically.

Marah Ellis Ryan

#31. Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

Byron Katie

#32. Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it.

Swami Vivekananda

#33. It is staggering the amount of suffering caused by bad ideas.

Marty Rubin

#34. The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Milan Kundera