Suffering Quotes · Page 54

Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain.

— Anonymous

The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought.

— Dan Quayle

“You’re one breath away from totally losing your shit. Accept the torment that is physical comfort.”

— Kristen Callihan

It is necessary men should be tried and purged and purified and made perfect through suffering.

— John Taylor

“The question is: do you want suffering or do you want peace? It's that simple.”

— Donna Goddard

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

— Henry David Thoreau

“The prayer of faith is a prayer of trust. The very essence of faith is trust.”

— R.C. Sproul

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

— Francesca Annis

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer…

— Jeff Cooper

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Americans are now certifiably insane. They are crazy. They are suffering a mass psychosis. They have lost their own ability to discern…

— Joseph Farah

“I realize that is a bold claim, but emotional suffering is just the negative emotion caused by a meaning we attach to…

— eBookIt.com

“As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.”

— Ayelet Waldman

I feel that much of the world's sorrow comes from people who are this, yet allow themselves to be treated as that.

— Ruth Gordon

“Control can also invite suffering and disappointment because it is impossible to exercise control where we have no reign..”

— Sarah Voldeng

Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more…

— Walter Kaufmann

This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It’s hard to watch someone you care about suffer. But when you love someone, you do it. You do it without question…

— Priscilla Glenn

When I wrote "Win," it only took about eight months, but eight months of sheer pain and suffering because every phrase that's…

— Frank Luntz

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are…

— Mark Haddon

Many people are addicted to suffering and have a mental habit of pointing out the worst in people or situations. Not only…

— Nate

Jesus didn't save you so you could cruise to heaven in a luxury liner. He wants you to be useful in His…

— David Wilkerson

Why should we defend ourselves when we are misunderstood and misjudged? Let us leave that aside. Let us not say anything. It…

— Therese of Lisieux

[T]he truth is that drug addicts have a disease. It only takes a short time in the streets to realize that out-of-control…

— Jay-Z

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

— Leonard Cohen

Until power is made subservient to morality, humanity will continue to suffer.

— Tasneem Hameed

Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new born child?

— Caroline Norton

“Only the broken beyond repair could know my anguish.”

— Terry a O'Neal

The words of that philosopher who offers no therapy for human suffering are empty and vain.

— Epicurus

“I could suffer through anything if you were my reward.”

— Priscilla Glenn

“Not all scars show, not all wounds heal, But, in time, you´ll turn head over heels.”

— Ana Claudia Antunes

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

I thought I could handle the pain from being apart from you, but I can't..

— Anonymous

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

— Alfred de Musset

“We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.”

— Bill Maher

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

— Katherine Howe

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

— Milan Kundera

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

— Carl Jung

I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies.

— Antonio Porchia