Suffering Quotes · Page 87

Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

— Anonymous

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

— Jeremy Bentham

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is…

— Anonymous

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

— Layne Staley

“Just because you spent 4 years studying a subject doesn't mean you have to spend the rest 40 years suffering it.”

— Dhaval Gajera

I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.

— Marlene Dumas

I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for their own good and they…

— Penn Jillette

In Russia, people suffer from the stillness of time.

— Tatyana Tolstaya

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you want to have peace of soul, learn to forgive. Jesus' secret was His ability to see into people's hearts. Seeing…

— Joseph F. Girzone

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its…

— Margery Allingham

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are…

— John Milton

I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and…

— Patch Adams

Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace..

— Wolfe Tone

Your heart knows the truth of openness and suffers the tense lie of your closure.

— David Deida

Whether the Republicans intentions are good or evil - I pretty much assume that they're evil - but no matter what, man,…

— Aaron McGruder

I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all…

— Richard Cobden

When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it…

— Tom Robbins

“In division others see opportunity, In division I see suffering. In love it does not exist.”

— johnjwillard

There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm…

— Matthieu Ricard

“The only way I can process it is through my faith. That God was not going to let suffer all this in…

— Rabia Chaudry

“When you are at unease with ‘what is,’ you experience suffering; when you are at ease with ‘what is,’ you experience peace;…

— Yogi Kanna

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do.…

— Albert Schweitzer

What can they suffer that do not fear to die?

— Plutarch

I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing…

— May Sarton

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

— Rumi

I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“There was only pain. More pain. Less pain. It was the only constant”

— C.J. Roberts

As a child, every North Korean is very happy. We were very happy because we learned horrible things about the outside world,…

— Lee Hyeon-seo

We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any…

— Mark Hopkins

My tormented soul flees from my body as the pain of losing you becomes too hard to handle.

— Anonymous

“Late in the night I pay the unrest I own to the life that has never lived and cannot live now. What…

— Wendell Berry

Whats the point of revenge? The only thing that revenge accomplishes is more destruction and agony.

— Miguel

The issue [Israeli-Palestinian conflict], already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an…

— Xi Jinping

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay…

— Oscar Wilde

“It's like an itch you can't scratch, knowing someone is suffering under your own roof.”

— Stephanie Meyer

I know some say, let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider,…

— Patrick Henry

The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony.

— Alireza Salehi Nejad