Top 100 Suffering Is Quotes
#1. Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you to change your ways.
Pico Iyer
#2. I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.
Elie Wiesel
#3. the root of suffering is to be found in our constant wanting and craving.
Eckhart Tolle
#4. The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.
John Green
#5. Rather than encouraging apathy through submissive responses, let us deliver the message loudly and clearly, that needles killing and suffering is wrong.
Bodo Balsys
#6. I think that melodrama is a safe way of suffering, because your suffering is fake. That's why I like melodrama.
Luis Negron
#7. Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.
Billy Graham
#9. Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional.
Sean Stephenson
#10. 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
#11. As you look at many people's lives, you see that their suffering is in a way gratifying, for they are comfortable in it. They make their lives a living hell, but a familiar one.
Ram Dass
#12. A kind of Providence keeps us blind to the intensity of suffering so as to keep us sane, until that day when the suffering is our own or that of someone we love beyond imagining.
Jim Beaver
#13. The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.
Karl Marx
#14. Suffering is what happens when truly horrible things happen to us.
Cheryl Strayed
#15. Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.
Bryant McGill
#16. Your suffering is something you choose. Experience it fully. Without it you will not achieve personal growth and higher consciousness.
Ernie J Zelinski
#17. In the light of His example, we can prove that suffering is to God's child the token of the Father's love and the channel of His richest blessing.
Andrew Murray
#18. Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue, Death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity!
Albert Camus
#19. Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.
Clare Of Assisi
#20. Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel De Unamuno
#21. Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
Samuel Rutherford
#22. A Buddhist scholar once explained to me that most Westerners mistakenly think that Nirvana is what you arrive at when your suffering is over and only an eternity of happiness stretches ahead. But such bliss would always be shadowed by the sorrow of the past and would therefore be imperfect.
Andrew Solomon
#23. My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.
Alexandra Stoddard
#24. Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.
Nhat Hanh
#25. Suffering is described in terms of three characteristics of impermanence or transitory nature, unsatisfactoriness and selflessness.
Dalai Lama XIV
#26. Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
Raoul Vaneigem
#27. Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.
Pankaj Mishra
#28. Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
William S. Burroughs
#29. One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.
John Ortberg
#30. 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
#31. Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
Mother Teresa
#32. The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead.
Michael Jackson
#33. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. Suffering is Finite, but I feel infinite.
Stephen Chbosky
#36. Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.
Tara Brach
#37. Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards
Andrei Tarkovsky
#38. The less we expect to suffer, the more devastating suffering is to bear.
Kevin DeYoung
#39. I would not dare
Console you if I could. What can be said,
Except that suffering is exact, but where
Desire takes charge, readings will grow erratic?
Philip Larkin
#40. I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the sufferings of others I also have for my own. And so all my suffering is crushed under the foot of my disdain.
Fernando Pessoa
#41. We can put an end to our suffering just by realizing that our suffering is not worth suffering for! How
Thich Nhat Hanh
#42. Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,
And has the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth
#43. As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.
Mother Teresa
#44. Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.
Ellen G. White
#45. It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
Bela Lugosi
#46. I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.
Laura Hillenbrand
#47. Suffering is just part of the great tapestry of life.
Marie Giordano
#48. In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.
Timothy Keller
#49. A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Max Lucado
#51. Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings.
Dalai Lama
#52. The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.
James G. Frazer
#54. People do kill themselves, you know, Miranda, when they think their whole reason for living is being taken away from them. Even the fact that other people think their suffering is a joke isn't enough to shake them out of it.
Robert Galbraith
#56. Even a happy life has a sad day. We fail to provide a context which says it's okay to cry, it's okay to be sad. So I think making the space for suffering is so important and making space for this expression of feelings in community.
Marianne Williamson
#57. In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#58. Actually the best way to relieve your mental suffering is to sit in zazen, even in such a confused state of mind and bad posture.
Shunryu Suzuki
#59. Your suffering is shaped exactly by your refusal to open.
David Deida
#60. The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
Pema Chodron
#61. Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
John Desmond Bernal
#62. The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#63. Suffering is sent to remind us to turn our thoughts towards God, who will give us solace.
Radhanath Swami
#64. Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
Henry Spira
#65. Love is joy. Don't convince yourself that suffering is a part of it.
Paulo Coelho
#66. We receive suffering when it comes as an opportunity for God to do something good in us and through us. We rejoice not in the pain but rather in what it can accomplish for the gospel so that something as costly as suffering is not wasted but used for God's glory, our joy, and others' good.
Mark Driscoll
#67. For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
Wendell Berry
#68. Suffering is not caused by pain but by resisting pain.
Anonymous
#69. All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.
Mother Teresa
#70. The real key to accepting and enduring a particular trial or persecution, or to persevering victoriously through a certain period of suffering, is discipleship.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#71. Suffering is a part of real life lesson.
Toba Beta
#72. Fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.
Paulo Coelho
#73. Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.
Bill Veeck
#74. I'm not talking about the place filled with flames. I mean the hell the world is when cruelty doesn't have a reason. When suffering is unrelenting and unrelieved by love.
Lisa Tucker
#75. Suffering is the stripping of our hope in finite things, therefore we do not put our ultimate hope in anything finite.
Timothy Keller
#76. Your suffering is my suffering and your happiness is my happiness.
Gautama Buddha
#77. It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.
John Negroponte
#78. So in 1987 I gave up all animal products and became a vegan. Simply so that I could eat and live in accordance with my beliefs that animals have their own lives, that they're entitled to their own lives and that contributing to animal suffering is something that I don't want to be a part of.
Moby
#79. The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
Ivan Illich
#80. I am from the poor people; I represent the poor people. I like workers. I like people that suffer because these people have a different approach to life from the people that have everything and don't know what suffering is.
Roberto Clemente
#81. The deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#82. To be grounded in an attitude of compassion is to be capable of receiving and welcoming the suffering, which the other is giving us. This does not mean that we suffer for them, but that we offer them possibility of going beyond the separate self in which suffering is harbored. (59)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#84. Often suffering is the trigger, or a spiritual teaching, or both. Call it readiness, or grace. This is the beginning of the awakening process.
Eckhart Tolle
#85. When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.
Vironika Tugaleva
#86. I had never felt like that before, as if there were a sort of curse, a merciless force in the light that shone on a world where life is borken and lost, where each new day takes something from the day that precedes it, where suffering is inmovable ...
Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio
#88. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.
Eckhart Tolle
#89. All suffering is worth it to follow Jesus. He is that amazing.
Nabeel Qureshi
#90. The reality is that we are safe and we have the capacity to enjoy the wonders of life in the present moment. When we recognize that our suffering is based on images instead of current reality, then living happily in the present moment becomes possible right away.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#91. ...and suffering is another bad habit.
Saul Bellow
#93. We have two lives ... the life we learn with and the life we live after that. Suffering is what brings us towards happiness.
Bernard Malamud
#94. In an almost totally insentient cosmos only human feeling is interesting or relevant to what the soul searches for...suffering is the most expensive of human emotions, but it is the most intense and precious of them, because suffering most efficiently humanizes the unfeeling universe.
Fred Chappell
#95. They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.
Charlotte Bronte
#96. Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#97. Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
Matthieu Ricard
#98. Beyond the veil of suffering is a light that shines bright in every one of us. One does not need glasses to see that light, just compassion.
Charles F. Glassman
#99. Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end ... and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
Teresa Of Avila
#100. The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
Walter Kaufmann
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