Suffering Quotes · Page 116

The expression if history in things is no other than that of past torment.

— Theodor Adorno

“Light is but suffering harnessed, Genius is brokenness harnessed.”

— Abhijit Naskar

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

— Anonymous

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

— Alphonsus Liguori

As long as one can suffer, one is living…live and suffer until life is gone.

— Betty Smith

People want to get rid of pain, not the cause of the pain itself.

— Ruben Papian

...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair.

— Edgar Allan Poe

Nirvana and enlightenment exist just on the other side of your sensory perceptions and your thoughts.

— Frederick Lenz

The agony and overwhelming sadness of being alone... Where nights seem to last forever and tears just keep streaming down my face.

— Cuts And Scars

Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation.

— Nhat Hanh

“Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.”

— Goethe

It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

— Twiggy

Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“What if you listened harder to the story of the man on the cross who found a way to endure his suffering…

— Cheryl Strayed

A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them;…

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The tears of those who never cry, the calm, the levelheaded ones, are terrible to see. She seemed to be split or…

— John Crowley

My church [Catholisism] is hurting from arrogance and from its indifference to the suffering of children that were abused and the inclination…

— Mark Shields

It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all.…

— Cheri Huber

Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments…

— Lewis H. Lapham

“When a slave rebels, it is nothing much to the people who read about it later. Just thin words on thinner paper,…

— N.K. Jemisin

It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions…

— Robert McCracken

As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted,…

— Mark Driscoll

“You can relieve pain and suffering by learning to take better care of your chakras.”

— Catherine Carrigan

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

— Pema Chodron

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

— Markus Zusak

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

— Antonio Porchia

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

— Ellen G. White

There's a 95% chance that you're suffering from depression if you relate to THIS.

— Anonymous

It isn't easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.

— Abhinav Bindra

“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.”

— William Wordsworth

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

— Oscar Wilde

We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.

— Alistair Begg

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

— Mary Augusta Ward

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

— Aberjhani

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

— Franz Kline

No one alive is more tormented nor weaker than myself.

— Kim Jong-hyun