Suffering Quotes
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Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. (Quote by - Plato)
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering and it seems that the more mature humanity becomes in terms of knowledge and age, the less mature we are in other ways. (Quote by - Julius Gordon)
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. (Quote by - Mother Teresa)
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. (Quote by - Otto Dix)
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
Experience is the extract of suffering. (Quote by - Arthur Helps)
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. (Quote by - Clara Barton)
Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering (Quote by - Johann Georg Von Zimmermann)
People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for. (Quote by - Laurie Anderson)
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering. (Quote by - Byron Katie)
Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Suffering is one of life's great teachers. (Quote by - Bryant H. McGill)
Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)
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. (Quote by - Bela Lugosi)
Suffering, once accepted, loses its edge, for the terror of it lessens, and what remains is generally far more manageable than we had imagined. (Quote by - Lesley Hazelton)
In times of trouble or personal suffering remember that you always have the opportunity to make earnest request to God through your prayers for the strength you need to continue. (Quote by - Patrick Gordon)
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering. (Quote by - Naomi Watts)
Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. (Quote by - Susan Sontag)
Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Quote by - Bible)
My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life. (Quote by - Jack Kevorkian)
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. (Quote by - Peter Singer)
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. (Quote by - Yoda)
It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success. (Quote by - Tom Harkin)
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. (Quote by - George Eliot)
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. (Quote by - Anatole France)
He who suffers much will know much (Quote by - Greek proverb)
Ho! why dost thou shiver and shake, Gaffer Grey? And why does thy nose look so blue? (Quote by - Thomas Holcroft)
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. (Quote by - Thomas Mann)
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. (Quote by - Horace)
If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most. (Quote by - Plautus)
One of the greatest sources of suffering is to have an inborn sense of honor (Quote by - De Casseres)
I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other. (Quote by - Russell Simmons)
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. (Quote by - Buddha)
It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero. (Quote by - Corazon Aquino)
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. (Quote by - Herman Hesse)
Suffering is part of the divine idea. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace. (Quote by - Hesiod)
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons. (Quote by - Miguel de Unamuno)
Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. (Quote by - Kurt Cobain)
I believe in people, especially suffering people. (Quote by - Pat Buckley)
Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering. (Quote by - Miguel Angel Ruiz)
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. (Quote by - Marcus Garvey)
Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result. (Quote by - Robert G Ingersoll)
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child? (Quote by - Caroline Norton)
More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead. (Quote by - Les Brown)
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. (Quote by - Saint Augustine)
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. (Quote by - Tennessee Williams)
Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way. (Quote by - Bodhidharma)
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control. (Quote by - Isabelle Adjani)
Achilles' cursed anger sing, O goddess, that son of Peleus, which started a myriad sufferings for the Achaeans. (The Iliad) (Quote by - Homer)
People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living. (Quote by - Dashiell Hammett)
It is by suffering that human beings become angels. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this. (Quote by - Thomas Holcroft)
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history. (Quote by - Michael Pollan)
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences. (Quote by - Albert Bandura)
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. (Quote by - Diana Princess Of Wales)
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by Death. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost? (Quote by - Sarah Williams)
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Love is suffering. One side always loves more. (Quote by - Catherine Deneuve)
All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. (Quote by - Marshall Rosenberg)
A man will give up almost anything except his suffering. (Quote by - John Cleese)
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. (Quote by - Kofi Annan)
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act. (Quote by - Paul Farmer)
Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment. (Quote by - Jerzy Kosinski)
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life. (Quote by - Walter Kaufmann)
For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety. (Quote by - George Murray)
Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation. (Quote by - Muhammad Yunus)
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. (Quote by - Andrea Dworkin)
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys. (Quote by - Emil Zatopek)
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. (Quote by - Titus Livy)
Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering (Quote by - Jane Roberts)
Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? (Quote by - Marie Antoinette)
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. (Quote by - David Herbert Lawrence)
Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists. (Quote by - Fred Thompson)
For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on itself and demands more and more food, forcing the sufferer to gain several stones in weight and wear men's V-necked pullovers. My condition has stabilised now, but I can never stray too far from cocoa-based products and I keep a small cracknel-type candy in my brassiere at all times. Fortunately, I wear a 'D' cup so there is plenty of room for sweetmeats... (Quote by - Victoria Wood)
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. (Quote by - Bible)
Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. (Quote by - Hesiod)
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson. (Quote by - Ernest Holmes)
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. (Quote by - Carl Jung)
Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. (Quote by - Albert Pike)
It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice. (Quote by - Cat Stevens)
As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust. (Quote by - Bob Beauprez)
Grief causes suffering and disease. (Quote by - Daniel D. Palmer)
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering. (Quote by - Robert Lynd)
It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself. (Quote by - Rainer W. Fassbinder)
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. (Quote by - Andre Malraux)
One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. (Quote by - Ovid)
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. (Quote by - Laura Ingalls Wilder)
First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here? (Quote by - Jack Kevorkian)
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. (Quote by - George Orwell)
Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is not quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr. (Quote by - Heinrich Suso)
It requires more courage to suffer than to die. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina. (Quote by - Ike Skelton)
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. (Quote by - Thich Nhat Hanh)
I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning. (Quote by - Naguib Mahfouz)
One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering. (Quote by - Leon Kass)
Suffering is everywhere. Don't ever think it isn't. So are miracles. Don't ever think they aren't. (Quote by - Jewel)
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects. (Quote by - John Kenneth Galbraith)
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. (Quote by - Alexis Carrel)
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals. (Quote by - Richard Pryor)
I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. (Quote by - Lionel Blue)
At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants. (Quote by - Egon Schiele)
Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life. (Quote by - Boris Pasternak)
All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy)
All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature. (Quote by - Vera Brittain)
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering. (Quote by - Margaret J. Wheatley)
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices. (Quote by - Paul Tournier)
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. (Quote by - John Acton)
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
And taste The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. (Quote by - Homer)
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions. (Quote by - Bodhidharma)
For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. (Quote by - Queen Elizabeth II)
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. (Quote by - Paul Harvey)
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared. (Quote by - Dennis Prager)
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. (Quote by - Elie Wiesel)
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering? (Quote by - Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Even when you are out there in the middle suffering you have to appreciate a genius at work (Quote by - Brian Lara)
And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused. (Quote by - Martin Sheen)
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? (Quote by - George Sand)
Literally, the society we humans have set up and perpetuate brings about not only the suffering of some people, it can exat an incalculable cost - untimely death. (Quote by - Jason Merchey)
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. (Quote by - George W. Bush)
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man (Quote by - Gustav Flaubert)
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. (Quote by - Layne Staley)
