Suffering Quotes · Page 73

For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists

— Hermann Hesse

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

— Neal A. Maxwell

If you are always pressing the envelope, you will suffer many paper cuts.

— Scott Fahlman

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

— Swami Vivekananda

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

— Richard Paul Evans

Who has that perfect faith and trust? Only such a person with that faith and trust can be enlightened.

— Frederick Lenz

Unfortunately, I suffer from insomnia, so my bedtime is as soon as I start to feel the least bit sleepy.

— Cheyenne Jackson

“Suffering can be traced back to the mind, with fundamental ignorance at its root. Therefore, ultimately, the best way to help others…

— Comcast NBCUniversal

the tormented world cries out for internationhood, for co-existence in a harmony of diversity and mutual aid, for an end to self-segregation…

— Clara Fraser

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at…

— Deepak Chopra

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig…

— Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.”

— John Gray

“You're human, all human, tempered with long suffering and brief mortality like a blade forged in fire and ice”

— Lila Bowen

The Laws of Reasoning consist of the ground, the path, and the result. ...Suffering is in the mind. How we perceive happiness…

— Dalai Lama

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them. I believe He wants…

— Francis Chan

Ending torture and tyranny in Iraq was not a mistake. Supporting democracy in Iraq is not a mistake. Helping the long-suffering Muslims…

— Michael Novak

“The crucified God takes believers on a journey into earth, into its pain and suffering, and finds in that journey not the…

— Mark Lewis Taylor

Suffering begins when you mentally label a situation as bad. That causes an emotional contraction. When you let it be, without naming…

— Eckhart Tolle

“There are no shortcuts, in life or in love. This pain must be felt. The alternative is much worse. It's what makes…

— Brothers Sisters

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least…

— Seneca the Younger

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic…

— Muhammad Ali Jinnah

“The dial on the wheel of sorrow eventually points to each of us. At one time or another, everyone must experience sorrow.…

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

There is a particular kind of pain which gives us pleasure.

— Agnibin Banerjee

Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved

— Iris Murdoch

Too much verbal stimulation causes the work to suffer.

— Gene Black

Where no sorrow is expressed., no suffering will be challenged

— Alexander Fennis

Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.

— Lester Bangs

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Behind everything beautiful, there has been some kind of pain.

— Anonymous

The chief cause of suffering for human beings is an inability to have things be the way they are.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

— Ben Jonson

Of all the kind of pains, the greatest pain is to love and to love in vain.

— George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

Indians are first class people suffering from third class governance.

— Arvind Kejriwal

“The only way to help me stop suffering was to help me die.”

— Souad

Christ was willing to suffer wrongs and to be despised, and do you dare to complain of anything?.

— Anonymous

“The cessation of desire equates to the cessation of suffering”

— John Green

“Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.”

— Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge