Suffering Quotes · Page 94

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“Physical pain is far easier to bear than mental agony.”

— Preeti Shenoy

In a world of regret, sacrifice and hardship, laughter and music are medicine.

— Immortal Technique

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

— Cesare Pavese

But if you've ever felt love, you'll know how painful it is to suffer for love.

— Paulo Coelho

“...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...”

— John Geddes

Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

— Marcus Thomas

Growing pains for the NYKnicks. Dissapointing loss against the Celtics. Next year!

— Melissa Morgan

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

— Frederick Lenz

The Samurai is the first to suffer anxiety for human society, and he is the last to seek personal pleasure.

— Morihei Ueshiba

“The torments of a proud decision, a deep conscience! God, in whom he did not believe, and his truth were overcoming his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities…

— John Locke

Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I have seen pain. I can feel the pain of those who undergo it. Pain gets transferred to those who see someone…

— Suresh Gopi

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is…

— Honore de Balzac

The poorest people in the world (particularly in low-lying areas) will suffer the most if we do not take action on climate…

— Jason David Frank

Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the 'greatest good for the greatest number' can excuse indifference to individual suffering. There is…

— Aneurin Bevan

It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It…

— Oswald Spengler

For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them…

— Anonymous

O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet…

— Horace Bushnell

The Lord did not come to make a display. He came to heal and to teach suffering men. For one who wanted…

— Anonymous

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals…

— Brigitte Bardot

First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as…

— Adolf Hitler

Heartbreak has an archetypal core, all heartbroken individuals suffer from the same kind of torture.

— Ginette Paris

The only cause of happiness is love. The only cause of suffering is self grasping.

— Garchen Rinpoche

We think it is in our nation's interest that Afghan women - or any women around the world - not suffer.

— George W. Bush

You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

— Frederick Lenz

It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.

— W. H. Auden

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

— Simone Weil

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

— Alphonse Daudet

You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.

— Vanna Bonta

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

— Patanjali

When the pain is severe, you know you're the one who loves the most.

— Mielya Saladdin

If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.

— Natalia Vodianova

“Feeling the anguish does not make you weak, but conceding and hiding from it makes a coward.”

— Gillian Duce

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

— Eckhart Tolle

My journey has mainly been driven by empathy towards people who I thought were suffering.

— Sonam Wangchuk

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

— Jodi Picoult

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez