Suffering Quotes · Page 97

The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.

— Josh Billings

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

— Jessica Lange

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

— Abraham Maslow

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

— Anonymous

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

— Meister Eckhart

What a depression, what a depression, what a depression, upon this land. Everywhere you go in, people them a suffer.

— Laurel Aitken

Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one's own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.

— Giles Foden

“Behind all hardships was a larger scheme. I couldn’t make it out clearly, but I could feel it with my whole heart.”

— Elif Shafak

A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer…

— Albert Camus

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

— Ishmael Beah

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

— Oswald Chambers

We are social animals. Others' suffering is ultimately your suffering; their happiness is ultimately your happiness.

— Dalai Lama

At the extremity of hardship comes relief and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease.

— Boonaa Mohammed

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

— Khaled Hosseini

Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest Souls, however these most massive characters have been seared in SCARS!'

— Andrew Guzaldo

For atheism and polytheism there is no special problem of suffering, nor need there be for every kind of monotheism.

— Walter Kaufmann

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

— Elie Wiesel

I'm interested in little people. 'The little, great people' is how I would put it, because suffering expands people.

— Svetlana Alexievich

Love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is only your aversion to it that hurts, nothing…

— Hermann Hesse

The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.

— John Flavel

It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our…

— William Shakespeare

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's…

— Kate Chopin

“Let regret rewind your past and let secret remind your last. Regret is your blessing but secret is your suffering.”

— Aram Seriteratai

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart…

— Oscar Wilde

If the human body recognized agony and frustration, people would never run marathons, have babies, or play baseball.

— Carlton Fisk

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from…

— Matt Chandler

The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.

— Eduardo Galeano

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

— Dan Barker

No matter how much pain and sufferings you are going through, always remember God is rearranging them in your favour.

— Drusila T

It is true that a victim who fights back may suffer for it, but one who does not almost certainly will suffer…

— Jeff Cooper

“God gives us time to live through our pains and sufferings, and then He brings us through with His comforting love.”

— Shareka Smith

The independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint efforts and common dangers, sufferings, and successes.

— George Washington

When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

— Neymar

“Somehow, turning to God and trusting him with the mysteries of suffering is the answer to the problem of suffering.”

— Edward T. Welch

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

— Swami Vivekananda

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

— Sylvia Ashton-Warner

One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

— Frederick Lenz