Suffering Quotes · Page 57

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

— Anonymous

“Life is an oasis which is submerged in the swirling waves of sorrows and agonies.”

— Thomas Hardy

“The agony of the empath is feeling their pain but being unable to save them from it.”

— Donna Lynn Hope

To be a value investor, you have to be willing [and able] to suffer pain.

— Jean-Marie Eveillard

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

— Franz Kafka

“The crux of the second noble truth is not what you want, but the very fact that you want.”

— Andrew Olendzki

Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

'your' suffering with what the world gave you for it

— Mak_786

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

— James Hollis

“My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are…

— Anonymous

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

— Cheri Huber

Fidel Castro's legacy is one of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights.

— Donald Trump

“When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a…

— Bryant McGill

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very…

— Charlize Theron

There is not a revolution that succe Women are suffering because they are being excluded. The high military council excluded women from…

— Nawal El Saadawi

Trauma never goes away completely, it changes perhaps, softens some with time, but never completely goes away.

— Mark Epstein

In the West, there's a myth that freedom means free expression-that to follow all desires wherever they take one is true freedom.…

— Jack Kornfield

“The absence of an empathetic listener, or more radically, the absence of an addressable other, an other who can hear the anguish…

— Dori Laub

“I had to climb out of the hurt, the loss seemingly tethering itself around me pulling me deeper into the pain. It…

— Dawn Garcia

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm. No [...] I know just…

— Osamu Dazai

We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course,…

— David Berg

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check…

— George Crabbe

The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own…

— Antoni Tapies

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

— Ingrid Newkirk

Christ did not suffer so you wouldn’t suffer. He suffered so when you suffer you will become like Him.

— Anonymous

Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.

— Paulo Coelho

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes.

— Tupac Shakur

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

— Juliette Drouet

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

— Florence Nightingale

“His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He’ll find his heart again.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

— Andrew Tobias

You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .

— Cesare Pavese

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

— Ram Dass

It may be a childish torment, but we do not get to choose our demons.

— Andrew Sean Greer

A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.

— Richard Sibbes

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

— Radhanath Swami

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

— Richard Gere