Suffering Quotes · Page 61

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

— Laura Hillman

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

— Albert Schweitzer

Anything but enlightenment is pure pain; it is the lack of enlightenment.

— Frederick Lenz

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

— Bill Gates

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

— Henry David Thoreau

It's very complex suffering from mental health, I think.

— Lola Young

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

— Gregory David Roberts

“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?”

— Mary Oliver

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the…

— Anonymous

It's said that someone who gives to others is in need the most, who treats others kindly is often mistreated, who is…

— Michael Loud

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. I think if you live in a black-and-white world, you're gonna…

— Bradley Cooper

“If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life.”

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp,…

— Federico Garcia Lorca

All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in…

— Shantideva

“Suffering often draws us closer to God. Instead of being a sign of God's punishment or distance, suffering can purify us, lead…

— Allen R. Hunt

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing…

— Anne Rice

If the world is crazy, maybe it needs a few sane people in the middle of it. Why do monks lock themselves…

— Tim Ward

Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the…

— John Rosemond

“Now he understood. After a while, pain simply stopped. It was as though your mind was able to create a firewall beyond…

— Elizabeth Berg

If God seems to be in no hurry to make the problem of evil go away, maybe we shouldn't be, either. Maybe…

— Anonymous

“In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings. Why shouldn't you suffer? I do! Will you forget me?…

— Emily Bronte

Passing a beggar who asks for money causes discomfort - and so it should. The act of facing and acknowledging human suffering…

— Dawn Foster

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that…

— Oscar Wilde

“Dealing with the loss of Kelsey should have made her more attuned to the agony of others,”

— Kylie Brant

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

— Leo Buscaglia

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

— James Beard

“understanding the ultimate source of your suffering doesn’t, by itself, help very much.”

— Robert Wright

“Help me to get my eyes off my suffering and onto you, God.”

— Shirley Corder

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

— Salman Rushdie

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

— Byron Katie

“For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.”

— Kevin Jackson

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

— James A. Garfield

God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I suffer because my interactions with others do not meet the expectations I did not know I had.

— Jim McDonald

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

— Elie Wiesel

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

— Euripides

The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

— John Townsend

There's no point in suffering. You could just have been having a good time. Because life is very short.

— CMAT