Suffering Of Quotes

#1. There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

Teju Cole

#2. Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

George C. Wallace

#3. Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Nhat Hanh

#4. As I cooked in the cauldron of motherhood, the incredible love I felt for my children opened my heart and brought me a much greater understanding of universal love. It made me understand the suffering of the world much more deeply.

Tsultrim Allione

#5. I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

Richard Pryor

#6. While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.

Ulysses S. Grant

#7. The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.

John Gray

#8. I'd like us to remember the suffering of those Americans who were injured serving this country before we dole out millions to slackers and moochers.

Chris Kyle

#9. For the first time in our history, every spectrum of black thought is in the same room on the same page with a cause bigger than our persons, bigger than our organizations, and the cause is
to ease the suffering of the masses of our people.

Louis Farrakhan

#10. I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world.

Elizabeth Berrien

#11. There's often a reason why people and dogs bite. It's about self-protection. If we respect what we may not know about the suffering of others and look at them compassionately, we open the door that can lead to understanding.

Jennifer Skiff

#12. If the world had attended me after World War II, it would have been united within seven years, and there would have been no suffering of the Unification Church and no damage to the democratic world.

Sun Myung Moon

#13. This is the suffering of fear.
Fear is part of being alive.
Other people experience this too . . . I am not alone. May I be kind to myself . . . may I give myself the compassion I need.

Tara Brach

#14. My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination of the leadership to protect the institution, rather than the children.

Mark Shields

#15. In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

Alberto Fujimori

#16. I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend,
that together we may succeed in building a better world
through human understanding and love,
and that in doing so we may reduce
the pain and suffering of all sentient beings.

Dalai Lama XIV

#17. As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#18. I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

Paul Bloom

#19. Through its imperialist system Britain brought about untold suffering of millions of people. And this is an historical fact. To be able to admit this would increase the respect, you know, which we have for British institutions.

Nelson Mandela

#20. Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

Pope John Paul II

#21. Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.

Anne Frank

#22. Australian biologist Charles Birch once said that 'you cannot participate more in a life than to participate in the suffering of that life'.

Simon Judkins

#23. Because we live in a democracy, and the people can't govern themselves well if they don't know the truth about the world we live in. What if our rich citizens never hear of the poverty and suffering of the rest of the city? Why should they ever give to charity or vote for reform?

Rosslyn Elliott

#24. It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#25. When you listen deeply to someone who suffers, you step into a zone of fire. There is a fire of suffering, of anger burning in the person you are listening to.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#26. The work I do to let go of my suffering diminishes the suffering of the whole universe. When I have room for my own pain, I have room for the pain of others. Only then can I be transformed into joy. As I heal, the Earth heals.

Christiane Northrup

#27. The suffering of the leader is always lightened by his glory. As much as possible, you must let others share in your glory, so that they never lose heart." I

Xenophon

#28. Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Nhat Hanh

#29. Ever since we were expelled from paradise, we have either been suffering, making other people suffer or watching the suffering of others

Paulo Coelho

#30. When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another are no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own humanity, our own soul.

Megan McKenna

#31. Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Bertrand Russell

#32. Remember Luke, the suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil will eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it.

George Lucas

#33. Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or nothing. We have to be pragmatic. Screw the principle.

Ingrid Newkirk

#34. The Bible and the history of the church both demonstrate that God's way for the suffering of His people has not always been the way of escape, but the way of endurance.

Billy Graham

#35. Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

Carl Jung

#36. I am inclined to think
" said I. "I should do so," Sherlock Holmes remarked impatiently. I believe that I am one of the most long-suffering of mortals; but I'll admit that I was annoyed at the sardonic interruption. "Really, Holmes," said I severely, "you are a little trying at times.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#37. It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

Kathe Kollwitz

#38. In the place called Adulthood there are no Cheshire Cats ... for they can't endure the suffering of the place.

John Logan

#39. Do not be a "go along, get along" person when it comes to the suffering of others. Integrity is not a popularity contest. Stand for love!

Bryant McGill

#40. At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

Sarah Moore Grimke

#41. Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

Albert Schweitzer

#42. Enduring comprises a strong activity of the soul, namely, a vigorous grasping of and clinging to the good; and only from this stout-hearted activity can the strength to support the physical and spiritual suffering of injury and death be nourished.

Josef Pieper

#43. We must remember that the most powerful medicine we can offer for suffering of any kind is simply kindness. It says, "You're not alone. I see you; I hear you; I'm with you.

Ponlop

#44. Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.

Hiam Abbass

#45. I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#46. Understand the suffering of worldly existence.
Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness.
Practice the path of meditation and compassion.
Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

Gautama Buddha

#47. It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

Jonathan Swift

#48. He was a proud union man, firmly believing that the courage of a few men could prevent the suffering of thousands.

Anthony Colombo

#49. History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.

Alison Goodman

#50. As for corruption, who's more corrupt - the seller or the buyer? And how corrupt does a society have to be when its citizens need to get high to escape their reality, at the cost of bloodshed and suffering of their neighbors?

Don Winslow

#51. One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

Frederick Lenz

#52. To diminish the suffering of pain, we need to make a crucial distinction between the pain of pain, and the pain we create by our thoughts about the pain. Fear, anger, guilt, loneliness and helplessness are all mental and emotional responses that can intensify pain.

Howard Cutler

#53. What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#54. The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father.

Alexander MacLaren

#55. The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

Edward Abbey

#56. Hell in life indicates a state of suffering, of agony, of torture (by others, by circumstances, or by ourselves), and of insipid colors and little joy. Hell is a heavy vibration that drags us spiraling down from the highest to the lowest, darkest vibrations..

Jacqueline Ripstein

#57. Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Albert Camus

#58. A victim soul is a pious individual chosen to absorb the pain and suffering of others.

Laura Wiess

#59. Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love.

Nhat Hanh

#60. Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

Frederick Lenz

#61. If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects, I said somewhat imperiously, because I wanted to change the subjects and also because a natural inclination does truly lead me to recognise my moods in the motionless suffering of things.

Italo Calvino

#62. 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

#63. There is no worse feeling than being unable to assuage the suffering of the innocent.

Adriana Trigiani

#64. There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for a simple and laborious life; secondly, repugnance to suffering of any kind; thirdly, the forgetfulness of the future life.

Pope Leo XIII

#65. If men could become pregnant - or be legally raped, or understand the unsubtle differences between 'yes' and 'no', i am certain you would soon see them change their tune about abortion and the treatment and trivialization of the suffering of rape victims.

Christina Engela

#66. If the suffering of children goes to swell the sum of sufferings which was necessary to pay for truth, then I protest that the truth is not worth such a price.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#67. For though Death be a dark passage, it leads to immortality, and that is recompence enough for suffering of it.

William Penn

#68. I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and that is stop the suffering of the patient.

Christiaan Barnard

#69. As we free ourselves from the suffering of 'something is wrong with me, 'we trust and express the fullness of who we are.'

Tara Brach

#70. Theology alone doesn't convine anyone.
Only those words which are pregnant with action, theology that is born of suffering, of struggles, of the poor
this theology is a testimony. This theology leads to conversion. (Leonardo Boff, p. 169)

Mev Puleo

#71. It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitterness, being a slave without the security of a slave.

Meridel Le Sueur

#72. Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

Coretta Scott King

#73. In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, who are beyond mercy.

Dean Koontz

#74. We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

Billy Graham

#75. If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Peter Kreeft

#76. A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

Carl Jung

#77. There is a thrill in relishing the suffering of strangers, and they hide their interest with worried faces.

Rin Chupeco

#78. Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering. Although it is uncomfortable, we are willing to feel the suffering of others and to do something about it when we can,

Norman Fischer

#79. Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

Ray Kurzweil

#80. The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to be done.

Louis Farrakhan

#81. How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Edwin Way Teale

#82. Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.

Sam Harris

#83. EPICURUS WROTE, "Empty is that philosopher's argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts out the suffering of the soul.

Martha C. Nussbaum

#84. Was our suffering of any consequence to their consciences? Did they see us as victims> Or were we simply nameless, faceless humans who were in their way?

Izzeldin Abuelaish

#85. Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

Joan D. Chittister

#86. Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#87. [D]on't cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go ... Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)

Stephen Levine

#88. As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.

Bob Beauprez

#89. You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it.

Debasish Mridha

#90. If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

Kenzaburo Oe

#91. The American obliviousness towards the suffering of Palestinians refugees plays a major part in radicalizing people. And we are fanning the flames of puritanism.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

#92. We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant.

C.S. Lewis

#93. The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly opposite results; thus, from the long-suffering of God, some derive benefit, and others harm; some are softened, while others are hardened.

Theodoret

#94. As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

Hamid Karzai

#95. It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Albert Camus

#96. Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.

Caroline Myss

#97. It's easy to just see what you want to see in your own comfort bubble, but to really get out there and experience the suffering of animals is an awakening. I had to become proactive and take a stand.

Alison Eastwood

#98. Prayer is the way to both the heart of God and the heart of the world - precisely because they have been joined through the suffering of Jesus Christ Praying is letting one's own heart become the place where the tears of God's children merge and become tears of hope.

Henri Nouwen

#99. Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.

Anna Maria Chavez

#100. I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

Milarepa