Suffering Quotes · Page 129

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

— Ziggy Marley

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

— John Ciardi

You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there's a loss in a family.

— Taylor Sheridan

“You are the cause of your suffering. That means that you alone have the power to change it.”

— Shai Tubali

So many suffer so much while so few sacrifice so little.

— Robert Pierce

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

— John Calvin

“What does it mean to be alive except to court disaster and suffering at every moment?”

— Thomas Ligotti

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How life is imperfect and filled with suffering.? In fact, its quite the opposite, if youll bear through the first disheartening fact…

— Melchor Lim

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

— Silvia Cartwright

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the…

— Naomi Campbell

“Along with the pain, an even greater Love and Compassion seemed to gently hold all the suffering of the world in an…

— Katherine Parker

“In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and…

— Osamu Dazai

One could say that everybody in this world has a spiritual teacher. For most people, their losses and disasters represent the teacher;…

— Eckhart Tolle

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive…

— Jimmy Carter

When hardships come into your life it breaks you for a while, but when it is done with you evolve into a…

— Madalsa Sharma

We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in…

— William Goldman

“But the burning man falling from the sky pulled me from my faraway world. My gaze wandered to the window an instant…

— Gwen Hayes

Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every…

— Thomas Jefferson

“In both pleasant experience producing karma effect (shata vedaniya) and unpleasant experience producing karma effect (ashata-vedaniya), there is indeed a constant inner…

— Dada Bhagwan

... when death has been brought upon a saint, we ought not to think that an evil has happened to him but…

— John Cassian

I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and…

— Anonymous

“What I want to do is to help you, the individual, to cross the stream of suffering, confusion and conflict, through deep…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There was a month of fiery happiness. Then six kinked years of suffering.”

— Annie Proulx

“…had an hour of silent agony that aged him more than years of happy life could have done.”

— Louisa May Alcott

Formerly we suffered from crimes; now we suffer from laws.

— Tacitus

There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

— Liz Smith

“So many people suffer because they choose to suffer. Pain comes to us all, but suffering is a choice.”

— E.J. Squires

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

— Anonymous

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

— Philip Neri

“Our suffering comes from our unlived life--the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.”

— C.G. Jung

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

— C. S. Lewis

Rather than have joy, I would rather be absent of pain.

— Chuck Berry

However much we suffer for the love of Jesus Crucified, it is but little.

— Benedict Joseph Labre

Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

— William Penn

In the midst of hardship, it was the music that restored my soul.

— Ji-Hae Park

Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility.

— Fulton J. Sheen

“Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson