Suffering Quotes

What use were his talons and fangs to the dying tiger? In the clutches, say, to make matters worse, ...

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suff...

Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the...

His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle,...

I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity insp...

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mer...

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with t...

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ...

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those o...

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the...

I believe there is dignity in sorrow simply because it is God's good pleasure that there should be. ...

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

we shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet ...

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, ...

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers...

The most striking quality that humans and animals have in common is the capacity to experience suffe...

We suffer but little from suffering itself; but from the manner wherein we accept it overwhelming so...

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your p...

Although psychology and pedagogy have always maintained the belief that a child is a happy being wit...

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

I must give due praise to the man who first extracted morphine from poppyheads. He was a true benefa...

Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the ide...

But it's hard to explain, Mitch. Now that I'm suffering, I feel closer to people who suffer than I e...

Mainly I'm a vegan because I like animals, and I don't want to be involved in their suffering. Also,...

I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on eart...

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... Th...

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift,...

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne ...

You have seen so much purposeless suffering that at least being killed for a reason can be borne?

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Elder Maxwell on Wintry DoctrinesElder Maxwell said that “if we are serious about our discipleship J...

Suffering is sometimes cleansing,” said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. “It can pur...

Nature might be a great experimentalist, but one who would never pass muster with an ethics review b...

I did not know what she suffered from, but I knew that her malady must have been horrible; I knew th...

I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between m...

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've r...

I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your ef...

Bean was tired of talking about this. She looked so happy when she talked about God, but he hadn't f...

I felt as though the vessel if my suffering had become empty, as if nothing could interest me now. I...

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which ...

When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like...

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somew...

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by ...

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and...

And yet it was not the mystery, but the comedy of suffering that struck him; its absolute uselessnes...

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world... They live as we all should live—undistu...

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by th...

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He wh...

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not...

Sufre mas el que espera siempreque aquel que nunca espero a nadie?Does he who is always waiting suff...

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of sufferin...

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever...

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a ...

At some point, we have each said through our tears, "I'm suffering for a love that's not worth it." ...

All of us have had this experience. At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m sufferi...

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed ...

It is easy to suffer for a cause or for a mission; this ennobles the heart of the person suffering. ...

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the ...

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and send...

but something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was...

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has...

Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the la...

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's beca...

But they both agreed that it's always nice to know that your wife is desired by another man, althoug...

But why all these questions?Because I'm in love and I'm afraid of suffering.Don't be afraid, the onl...

This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feeli...

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducin...

The capacity for suffering – or more strictly, for suffering and/or enjoyment or happiness – is not ...

Were we incapable of empathy – of putting ourselves in the position of others and seeing that their ...

And the priests looked down into the pit of injustice and they turned their faces away and said, 'Ou...

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they...

Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe ou...

In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriat...

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is tha...

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the wi...

If we had to and were able to suffer the sufferings of everyone, we could not live.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

...In a case like this, the thing is (in my own opinion) to draw back upon oneself, and not to striv...

Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering'...

Do you remember how this life of yours longed in childhood to belong to the grown-ups? I can see tha...

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the...

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging ...

Woe to the soul which God rejoiceth to punish! . . . . Is it not a terrible thing to a wretched soul...

When shall I be past these soul-tormenting fears, and cares, and griefs, and passions? When shall I ...

Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the god...

The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. Duri...

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for ou...