Suffering Quotes · Page 114

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

— Aeschylus

That's stupid; people thinking with words but suffer with scenes.

— Erdem

“You need to keep hurting until you realise you never needed to hurt in the first place.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“Suffering is real. To urge anything that dismisses it as ‘unreal’ is to mock the pain of another.”

— Arun Shourie

“Pain is the great equalizer, the cure to mental anguish, the antidote for a hopeful heart.”

— David Estes

Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

— Gloria Steinem

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

— Anonymous

“Some people think and say that we came here to suffer. Hmmmmmmm. I don’t think so.”

— Art Hochberg

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

— Siri Hustvedt

Everything that was not suffered to the end and finally concluded, recurred, and the same sorrows were undergone.

— Hermann Hesse

Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain…

— Julian Baggini

Because of empathy, stories of the suffering of one person could lead us into a war that could kill millions of people.

— Paul Bloom

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

— Bruce Catton

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn…

— Charles Spurgeon

I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to…

— Yulia Tymoshenko

He who doesn't get rid of the I won't be able to avoid suffering the same way that someone who doesn't get…

— Shantideva

Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to…

— A. C. Bradley

True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer…

— Lars von Trier

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend…

— Anonymous

The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic…

— Samuel Beckett

Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the…

— John Dear

A smart society recognises the benefits of treating problems before they escalate, either through helping people quit smoking or moving them out…

— Dawn Foster

I do sort of appreciate Nelly's [Ternan] view that it would be woman who would suffer mostly from that - who would…

— Felicity Jones

Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

As Americans, which I suffer from myself, we have ADD.

— Pitbull

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

— Vivienne Westwood

The reason em suffering now. Is coz god had plan something better for me.

— Purvish Gandhi

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

— Dante Alighieri

Broken I run to you for your arms are open wide. I am weary but I know your touch restores my life.

— Kathryn Scott

I am a sinner, and I consider myself very fortunate to suffer something for the name of Jesus Christ.

— Joan Antidea Thouret

When we feel pain, everything else around us seems weighed down with our suffering.

— Anonymous

When a team is not winning, someone must suffer. It's the same in baseball or anything else.

— George Mikan

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

— Jefferson Davis

“You're suffering from some serious myopia my friend.”

— Ben Mitchell

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

— Norman Mailer

Suffering of sentient beings is like decay; it fertilizes the growth of their souls.

— Anne Rice

“Most of the dreams that have suffered to death were murdered by their own owners.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Every patient you see is a lesson in much more than the malady from which he suffers.

— William Osler

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

— Jacques Barzun

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

— Timothy Keller