Suffering Quotes · Page 92

“It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.”

— Marcel Proust

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

— Ouida

The people with the biggest hearts, always suffer the most.

— Anonymous

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted.

— Orson F. Whitney

I am the perpretor of my suffering - but only all of it.

— Byron Katie

When I was younger and more tortured, I wanted to suffer in my roles.

— Julia Duffy

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

— Jack Kornfield

We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.

— Sarada Devi

“Whatever it was, he thought, whatever the strain and the agony, they were worth it, because they had made him reach this…

— Ayn Rand

I've never discovered the idea for my next novel while I was still working on the current novel. Other writers don't suffer…

— James Thayer

We as a nation cannot be satisfied with our children suffering health problems through no fault of their own.

— Angela Rayner

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems -…

— Jack Kingston

I have seen several hardships since I was a child. As a result, I don't perceive things the way most people do.

— Nana Patekar

Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

— Louis C. K

Hardship in daily & routine life may hurt you but monotony will kill you. I can & I will is the moment…

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the…

— Laurence Sterne

Man is the individualised expression or reflection of God imaged forth and made manifest in bodily form. How is it, then, I…

— Ralph Waldo Trine

“Bhikkhus, what is meant by ‘pursuing the past’? To pursue the past means to lose yourself in thoughts about what you looked…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Some animal rights activists are demanding vegetarianism, even veganism now, or nothing. But since only 4 or 5 percent of Americans claim…

— Steven Wise

The whole idea of emotions being something we can't escape as humans, but that deep suffering that comes from resisting them, we…

— Alanis Morissette

We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the…

— N. T. Wright

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who…

— Gary L. Francione

“That dead-eyed anhedonia is but a remora on the ventral flank of the true predator, the Great White Shark of pain. Authorities…

— David Foster Wallace

Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I…

— Mary Pipher

I'm sure that everybody feels a kind of permanent anguish about what's going on in the world.

— Doris Lessing

I think you haven't tried enough sometimes unless you're suffering a bit.

— Bonobo

Bear patiently, my heart, for you have suffered heavier things.

— Homer

“Like opium, nerve annihilation stretches up my veins to pump incinerating anguish through my body.”

— Poppet

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

— Anonymous

I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

— Gerard Majella

“Fortunate people will never understand hardship. Hardship only understands by unfortunate ones.”

— Leishort

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

— Otis Rush

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Mom was crying while she cooked, salting domesticity with anguish, the recipe of her life.”

— Justina Chen

“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!”

— Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

— James Cook

Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

— Dave Barry

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

— Mother Teresa

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

— Billy Graham

“How in the world--when what is such knowledge but suffering?”

— Henry James