Suffering Quotes
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Suffering Quotes & Sayings
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When you see suffering and sadness, to heal them the least we can offer is our love and kindness.
— Debasish Mridha
The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.
— Allen Ginsberg
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl.
— Heinrich Heine
There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.
— Ramana Maharshi
You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.
— T. Scott McLeod
We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
— Vance Havner
If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.
— Bob Marley
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
So long as space remains
So long as sentient beings'
Suffering remains
I will remain
In order to help,
In order to serve. — Dalai Lama
So long as sentient beings'
Suffering remains
I will remain
In order to help,
In order to serve. — Dalai Lama
A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.
— Susan Sontag
When you bring an idealised relationship down to the level of an ordinary one it isn't necessarily the ordinary one that suffers'.
— Winston Graham
What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.
— Albert Einstein
Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering,
— Pema Chodron
We can't wait to be happy until we remove one hundred percent of suffering. That moment will never exist.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.
— Marianne Moore
I would rather have you suffering and alive-than dead.
— Hanya Yanagihara
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
— D. A. Carson
suffering is the essence of success!!!
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.
— George Lucas
You will never realize and can feel the pain other person is suffering from until you are not at their place
— Me
This really is my life's work, to go where there is suffering,
— Kayla Mueller
The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
— Stefan Molyneux
God does not remove us from all harm; He uses harm to move us close to Him.
— Dillon Burroughs
In the wilderness, we walk and keep the way of the Creator
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.
— George Carlin
The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.
— Melvin Jules Bukiet
Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.
— Alan Paton
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There aren't any answers to be found. There are no good choices. Submissiveness to a tyrant or chaos and suffering.
— Brandon Sanderson
The lot of man - to suffer and to die.
— Alexander Pope
It doesn't matter if an animal can reason. It matters only that it is capable of suffering and that is why I consider it my neighbor.
— Albert Schweitzer
I have a collective sense of suffering.
— Alice Walker
I read the most extravagant things about people who suffer and depress because of things written about them.
— Mick Jagger
My greatest fear in life isn't dying. It's being the source of someone else's suffering.
— V.E Schwab
The survived souls give strength to the suffering souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Energy markets can be thought of as suffering from appendicitis due to fossil fuel subsidies. They need to be removed for a healthy energy economy.
— Fatih Birol
Chasms are deceived by rumors of their depth.
— Marty Rubin
We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.
— Tony Abbott
You say, you can't live without hope? My friend, hope is our biggest enemy. It does not bring realization. It just prolongs suffering.
— Stevan V. Nikolic
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
— Katherine Boo
You've never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.
— Denis Johnson
It is a weakness to suffer when you don't have to.
— Marty Rubin
Saul may be the one with Alzheimer's, but I'm the one suffering a long and miserable life.
— Eric Rill
Suffering brings the patient to us ... the patient needs to feel heard and seen-that is, met, by another person ...
— Leston Havens
Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,
— Katharine Hepburn
In Classical Greek the word pathos was the same for both suffering and experience. Those Greeks knew a good joke when they heard one.
— Peter Straub
Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.
— Patrick Wolf
Language is accurate: you run for your life. If you are dying, leave. If you are suffering, move. There is no other law, only movement.
— Amelie Nothomb
I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
— Denise Duhamel
Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
— Ajahn Chah
You have to suffer in order to be a human being who can help people understand suffering.
— Nicholson Baker
If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
It was like someone had cheerfully suggested she run a marathon when she'd just dragged herself out of bed after suffering from the flu.
— Liane Moriarty
Transformation
without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change. — Wm. Paul Young
without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss
is just an illusion of true change. — Wm. Paul Young
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
The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.
— CeCe Winans
Because he was suffering doubts about himself and his future, Adams may have felt comfort demeaning the behavior and the character of women.
— Paul C. Nagel
The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.
— Garchen Rinpoche
There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I like to describe Himalayan climbing as a kind of art of suffering. Just pushing, pushing yourself to your limits.
— Wojciech Kurtyka
Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.
— Angelina Jolie
A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Suffering produces Character, and Character produces Hope, and Hope does not disappoint us
— Jeremy Lin
The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.
— W. H. Auden
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
— Philip James Bailey
Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
— Rita Mae Brown
The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
— Allen Wheelis
Our top priority is to relieve suffering of human beings.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
The third noble truth says that the cessation of suffering is letting go of holding on to ourselves.
— Pema Chodron
Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.
— Pema Chodron
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every instance of a man's suffering the penalty of the law is an instance of the failure of that penalty in effecting its purpose, which is to deter.
— Richard Whately
We understand and acknowledge that the Resurrection has placed a glorious crown upon all of Christ's sufferings!
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body.
— Fulton J. Sheen
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
— Eknath Easwaran
Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.
— James L. Papandrea
In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.
— Jean De La Bruyere
History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."
— Johann Baptist Metz