Suffering Quotes · Page 68

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life.

— Jack Kornfield

Be grateful. By slaying you now, I spare you an eternity of torment.

— Lucian

You maybe defeat is you love to much But you will live in torment if you Don't trust to much

— Laine

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right”

— E. Lockhart

On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.

— Tina Turner

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

— Plutarch

The only valid cure for any kind of depression is the acceptance of real suffering. To climb out of it any other…

— Helen M. Luke

Children, old people, vagabonds laugh easily and heartily: they have nothing to lose and hope for little. In renunciation lies a delicious…

— Matthieu Ricard

“Ye suffer from yourselves. None else compels, None other holds you that ye live and die, And whirl upon the wheel, and…

— Edwin Arnold

“If we can realize that life is always happening for us, not to us… game over, all the pain and suffering disappears.”

— Tony Robbins

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it…

— William Golding

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

— Albion Fellows Bacon

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been…

— Benjamin Franklin

There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite,…

— Anonymous

Pierre was an extraordinary teacher - he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to…

— Margaret Trudeau

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be…

— Simone Weil

Countless people, suffering from many different diseases, stand to benefit from the answers stem cell research can provide. We owe it to…

— Nancy Reagan

I see depression as an exponentially developed version of a human condition. Meaning I always think in the end it's humanizing. People…

— Daphne Merkin

One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

“I told her [...] that I would bow down before her suffering with compassion, that she could control her life, that I…

— Miriam Toews

In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair Will you still care? Will you be there? In my trials and my tribulations…

— Michael Jackson

“The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can…

— May Sarton

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

— Anonymous

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

— Anonymous

Running after a ball, scoring goals, celebrating and suffering in a stadium has been my whole life.

— Luca Toni

On the day that you were born, you began to die. Do not waste a single moment more!

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.”

— Bryant McGill

“Sometimes what we avoid most is not pain but mystery. He”

— Nathan Hill

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

— Tullian Tchividjian

“How much neurologic suffering would you let your child endure before saying that death is preferable?”

— Paul Kalanithi

Every relation to mankind, of hate or scorn or neglect, is full of vexation and torment.

— Orville Dewey

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

— Philip Yancey

It is so good, so sweet and above all, so beneficial to suffer.

— Bernadette Soubirous

“Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.”

— Jane Austen

The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.

— Gregory David Roberts

One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

— Madame de Stael

For there are deeds which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley