Suffering Quotes · Page 117

He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.

— Beilby Porteus

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

— Jack White

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

— Johann Baptist Metz

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

— Anthony Trollope

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

— Garry Trudeau

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

— Eckhart Tolle

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

— Andre Aciman

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

— Anonymous

“THERE IS A PLACE BEYOND SUFFERING, beyond hope, beyond despair. It is peaceful and timeless, and it is not death.”

— Michael Lynes

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because…

— Czeslaw Milosz

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it…

— Theodore Roosevelt

During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it…

— Elizabeth of the Trinity

The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it…

— Thomas Carlyle

“This way, suffering becomes a fearful gift, very different from that other gift, happiness, conventionally defined. The latter brings pleasure, but the…

— David Brooks

“Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of…

— Rhidian Brook

“This man was her captor, yet he freed her soul; he’d caused her agony, yet also delivered peace; every touch was euphoric…

— Lisa Eugene

“Everybody becomes wise when the moment is gone. Retrospective wisdom is worthless. When you are picking on something, at that very moment…

— Osho

“Pain is powerful medicine. While it may be unpleasant to take this medicine, it is what shapes and inspires us. As you…

— Darren Main

“She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all…

— Khaled Hosseini

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst…

— Thomas Paine

... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of…

— Dorothy Allison

“But then, that's the question. Should you even pause to consider your own reactions? These men suffer so much more than he…

— Pat Barker

The EU is an alliance that the Americans control, in which the EU of course has a great deal of autonomy, but…

— Tariq Ali

“Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaking with daemonic orchestras, the snatches of fearful sleep, the voices…

— Malcolm Lowry

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

— Floyd Patterson

“We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.

— Anonymous

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

— Simon Munnery

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

— Steven Erikson

“cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings—even those regarded as enemies.”

— Karen Armstrong

Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.

— William Shakespeare

To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

— Gautama Buddha

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

— William Shakespeare

I guess I suffer from an impoverishment of the sociopathic spirit necessary to go big time.

— Glen Cook

“But the flip side of being spared was the agony of wondering who hadn't.”

— Khalid Housseini

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

— Jack Kornfield

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

— Trent Reznor

May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

— Gautama Buddha

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

— Ann Brashares