Suffering Quotes

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do an...

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

No man can bear a child's cross.

From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his w...

You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an an...

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of ...

today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would ma...

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss...

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the...

It is not so much what people suffer that makes the world mysterious; it is rather how much they mis...

When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in s...

Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it pre...

Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christ...

... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and ...

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in...

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and...

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him su...

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is hu...

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. P...

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that wo...

Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.

I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see ...

How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?”Winston thought. “By making him suffer,” he...

Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about...

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

His face frankly displays his suffering, expressing it with a truly royal simplicity. At such moment...

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder ...

As long as one suffers one lives.

Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live ...

How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerl...

At last she sighed."But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless ex...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish dange...

As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleepin...

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

What does hanging on a cross for twenty-four hours mean to a man who has no children,' I said, 'espe...

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can ...

suffering is a misunderstood pain

The reward of suffering is experience.

Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and ...

As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and ...

If something came out of the deal, it couldn’t make things any worse for us than they already were, ...

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at l...

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those w...

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that...

I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not env...

I am not afraid,” she said; which seemed quite presumptuous enough.“You are not afraid of suffering?...

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, o...

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that... I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that eve...

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlis...

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its...

Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is ...

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c...

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He s...

Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men...

No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I e...

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether...

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and...

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certai...

But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It ca...

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own l...

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said some...

Why d’you make me suffer?"“Because I love you.”Now it was his turn to get angry. “No, no, you don’t ...

Can it be thattheir prayers and their tears are fruitless? Can it be that love,sacred devoted love, ...

Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're ...

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and s...

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less t...

Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live...

You've been told that you're broken, that you're damaged goods and should be labeled victims. I don'...

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduc...

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

We do not suffer by accident.

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I understand you.—You do not suppose that I have ever felt much.—For four months, Marianne, I have h...

Our willingness to suffer for the sake of the perception of freedom is remarkable.

In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it's our way...

But how to be present to another? Our hearts are so hard. We are so insensitive to the suffering of ...

Much more likely you’ll hurt me. Still what does it matter? If I’ve got to suffer, it may as well be...

Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".

How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambiti...

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism,...

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being...

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted ...