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Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history. — Khaled Hosseini

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering. — Byron Katie

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity. — Pope Francis

People are so tired. The world is set up to exhaust you and drain you. That's how humankind has devised their world. Life is not necessarily that way — Frederick Lenz

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer. — Teresa Of Avila

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward. — Mohammed Mahdi Akef

The suffering and happiness in our world, both individual and collective, depend on our consciousness. — Jack Kornfield

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that. — Ruth Gordon

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! — Louise Bogan

As long as space abides and as long as the world abides, so long may I abide, destroying the sufferings of the world. — Shantideva

Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world. — T. J. MacGregor

There is a correlation between the physical and spiritual worlds but only attachment to the physical world causes emotional suffering. — Daniel Marques

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world
the company of those who have known suffering. — Helen Keller

The world is more than the sum of its suffering. — Deepak Chopra

Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree. — Tom Paxton

The suffering that is there in this world is such that it will fall off (go away), but people give support to it. — Dada Bhagwan

Faith is like pure eyes that enable us to see a pure and perfect world beyond the suffering world of samsara. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world. — St. Jerome

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is. — Naoyuki Ochiai

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish. — R. Scott Bakker

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. — Oscar Wilde

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world. — Philip Zaleski

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world. — Silvia Cartwright

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

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. — Helen Keller

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things. — Henry Rollins

You add to the suffering in the world when you take offense, just as much as you do when you give offense. — Ken Keyes Jr.

The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ. — John Piper

Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little. — John Maynard Keynes

How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerless dreams? Why everything? — Gustave Flaubert

Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands. — Nicky Singer

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering. — Ingrid Newkirk

I think most people in the world are decent if they're not suffering. — Simon Van Booy

All the harm, fear, and suffering in the world are caused by attachment to the self: Why should I hold on to this great demon? — Shantideva

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world. — Tracy Chapman

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it — Albert Camus

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and win battles that others do not know anything about. — Jonathan Harnisch

For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free — John G. Lake

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. — William Makepeace Thackeray

We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice. — Sulak Sivaraksa

Frailty and cruelty are our gifts to the world. Who is to say that suffering is not the greatest of all gifts from the gods? — Douglas Clegg

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea. — Richard Rhodes

She breathed in the vast world of suffering and pure, dark love, and as she did, a well of compassion began to flow in her. — Rebecca Wells

All these mystics, throughout history, all over the world, they all found their way to enlightenment by physical suffering. — Chuck Palahniuk

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain. — Lee Strobel

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world. — Oswald Chambers

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Economic markets are collapsing. People all over the world are suffering and people afraid. What happens when peep are afraid? They become intolerant. — Madonna Ciccone

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race? — Monty Woolley

How in the world
when what is such knowledge but suffering? — Henry James

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

Suffering was life, full of suffering was the world. — Hermann Hesse

Suffering Third World children have nutritional deficiencies not vaccine deficiencies. — Lendon Smith

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
— Clarice Lispector

CANDY: I'll be in a world of pain that no amount of worrying ahead of time will prepare me for. Why suffer in preparation for suffering? — Bijou Hunter

The world consists of imaginary people, claiming imaginary virtues and suffering from imaginary happiness. — Vernon Howard

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world. — Greg Iles

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering. — Nick Harkaway

As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting. — Natasa Nuit Pantovic

The appearances of the world are not the problem,
it's clinging to them that causes suffering — Tilopa

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize. — Edwidge Danticat

It might be a dungeon
of suffering and pain full
yet this life is worth living
and this world is beautiful. — Jyoti Arora

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

The World is Very Flat, There is no doubt of that. (Night Thoughts of a tortoise suffering fom insomnia on a lawn) — E.V. Rieu

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. — Franz Kafka

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others. — Shantideva

... the possibility of pain is inherent in the very existence of a world where souls can meet. — C.S. Lewis

All suffering goes just as it came. So it is with the glories and tragedies of the world. — Paulo Coelho

When we all become more compassionate, there will probably be less suffering in the world. — Kishore Bansal

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together. — Mother Teresa

If you suffer [death] in the way of God, it will be your profit in this world, and your reward in the next. — Hassan Al-Banna

Don't set a goal to avoid pain or escape suffering; set a goal to live in joy and bliss to make this world joyful and blissful. — Debasish Mridha

We suffer from hunger of the spirit while much of the world is suffering from hunger of the body. — Fulton J. Sheen

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

I often wonder if I am entitled to be as happy as I am, given the amount of suffering in the world. — Dennis Prager

There is nothing wrong with the world of physicality. There is nothing wrong with existence. It's perfect ... but it's terribly transient. — Frederick Lenz

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life. — Mother Teresa

Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God. — Philip Yancey

I'm not the only person in the world who is suffering. I'm trying to talk to the world, responding to those voices. — Dorianne Laux

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world. — Patanjali

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain. — Mata Amritanandamayi

If we take good care of ourselves, we help everyone. We stop being a source of suffering to the world, and we become a reservoir of joy and freshness. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Suffering and pain are always obligatory for a broad consciousness and a deep heart. Truly great men I think, must feel great sorrow in this world. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace! — Pope Francis

In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself. — Billy Graham

The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me the world has always been like this. — Juan Gabriel Vasquez

You're in a world of diversity. You see things through a glass darkly. There is a separation everywhere. — Frederick Lenz

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love. — N. T. Wright

What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving. — Alicia Keys

Suffering is a form of knowledge. It tells us what is wrong with our world. — David Smail

Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all. — Frederick Lenz

A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this. — Ahmed Zaki Yamani

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow. — Marvin Gaye

All suffering is caused by one belief....the belief in separation — Vivian Amis

The hardest thing to do in this world is to have a steadfast mind & will to be who God called you to be. — Okisha Jackson