Suffering Quotes · Page 138

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

— Alphonsus Liguori

...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

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

— Catherine Carrigan

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

— Markus Zusak

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

— Pema Chodron

If suffering can be transformed into creativity . . . I want to try it.

— Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Just because I am strong enough to handle pain, doesn't mean I deserve it.

— Anonymous

Meditate, meditate, meditate. Then you will find that people suffer for no reason when there is the mine of bliss in everyone’s…

— Swami Brahmananda

Feelings like disappointment, embarrassment, irritation, resentment, anger, jealousy, and fear, instead of being bad news, are actually very clear moments that teach…

— Pema Chodron

Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.

— Michel de Montaigne

Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and…

— Stephen Marche

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

— Lazare Carnot

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

— Sharon Salzberg

Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

— Plato

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty…

— James Patterson

“Or is it the case that no one gets over anything? Is there really that much pain and suffering continuing right now…

— Koethi Zan

“The scientific study of suffering inevitably raises questions of causation, and with these, issues of blame and responsibility. Historically, doctors have highlighted…

— Bessel A. van der Kolk

There is no sense in meddling with the extinction of polar bears, not when so many more pressing human problems await. Until…

— S.E. Cupp

I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying…

— Tony Burgess

I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the…

— Anais Nin

Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those…

— Haile Selassie

“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would…

— William Styron

Medical judgment can be taught - laboriously, in long periods of training - but it cannot be neatly handed over as the…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?

— Matthieu Ricard

Kill the idea of the lone, suffering artist. Don't make it any harder on yourself.

— Natalie Goldberg

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

— Merle Shain

Nothing is ever cut-and-dried. There's anguish behind everything.

— Paul Rudd

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystanders.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Forgive yourself. For your pain caused others to realize the reality of life.

— Nayely Saldana

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

— Paulo Coelho

Never truely getting over you but inhaling in pain and suffering.

— Megan Sartin

“Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.”

— Criss Jami

Social reform is the desperate decision to remove corns from a person suffering from cancer.

— Karl Kraus

we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.

— Rebecca Wells

The reason for our suffering is our resistance to the changes in life.

— Senora Roy

Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

— Helen Keller

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

— Michael J. Fox

“I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.”

— Phoolan Devi

On days when the sky is grey, the sun has not disappeared forever.

— Arnaud Desjardins