Suffering Quotes · Page 104

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

— Chuck Jones

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

— Roger Daltrey

It is the fire of suffering that brings forth the gold of godliness.

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

If you want to become beautiful, you must be able to suffer too.

— Anonymous

“We increase our suffering through our attempts to avoid it”

— Miriam Greenspan

“I think it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering.”

— Gregory David Roberts

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face.

— Suzanne Collins

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form…

— Cornel West

Psychologically, it's difficult to ever shrug off the effects of extreme hardship or poverty, family bereavement, chronic ill health or the memory…

— Dawn Foster

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered,…

— Anonymous

Lord, I surrender my heart to you, I give you all my disappointments pain and suffering, which You alone can understand. Please…

— Andrew Guzaldo

“For whatsoe'er their sufferings were before, That change they covet makes them suffer more. All other errors but disturb a state; But…

— John Dryden

I've always felt like I needed to experience some type of anguish in order to feel productive as an artist.

— Michelle Zauner

When you're in hell, you forget how great you really are because you're suffering and you forget the great things you've done.

— David Goggins

You want something to drink?” – Nick “Human blood would be fabulous. But since I doubt you’re donating, let me suffer for…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Sacrifice, struggle, and suffering are tireless exertions of dedicated individuals. Its another's wrongful deeds that always seem bitter, with there various evasive-adverse-effects.…

— Travis Long

A cross borne in simplicity, without the interference of self-love to augment it, is only half a cross. Suffering in this simplicity…

— Francois Fenelon

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

— Henry David Thoreau

I think corporations should give more attention to this suffering and should wait to invest until there is a responsible government in…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of…

— Arnaud Desjardins

Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive…

— Samuel Rutherford

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human…

— Anonymous

I think we start suffering as soon as we come out of the womb. I think that people tend to stereotype. When…

— Lucinda Williams

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

— Jodi Picoult

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.

— Austin O'Malley

There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfill all the offices of death, except to kill

— John Donne

Exactly! We run or we lose ourselves in something, somebody, anything to try and ease our pain.

— Ann Brashares

Unkind language is sure to produce the fruits of unkindness--that is, suffering in the bosom of others.

— Jeremy Bentham

You do not like to suffer yourself. How can you inflict suffering on others?

— Ramana Maharshi

“The truest and deepest pathos in this world is not that of suffering but that of brave struggling.”

— William Graham Sumner

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

— Oscar Wilde

“You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.”

— Rossana Condoleo

Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness

— Jocelyn Murray

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

— Gustave Flaubert

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

— Florence King

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

— Richard Baxter

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

There is no joy nobler than suffering for the sake of love for man.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin