Suffering Quotes · Page 99

“Our suffering comes from our unlived life--the unseen, unfelt parts of our psyche.”

— C.G. Jung

“Life is a thorough university; pain and hardship are its distinguished professors.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment.”

— George Lansdowne

O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.

— Paul Lafargue

Boredom is the inner conflict we suffer when we lose desire, when we lack a lacking.

— Robert McKee

When you love someone, them being hurt is worse than any pain that you could suffer.

— Dorothy Koomson

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

— Epicurus

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

— Martin Luther

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

— William Styron

“A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Now, most people who suffer realize that the Bible contains answers for their plight; they just don't know where to look.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

If I can undo what is done it will be the time when I fall for you because that is the beginning…

— HM

It is attachment to desire, not desire itself, that is the underlying cause of practically all of our pain and suffering.

— Rod Stryker

Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth.

— Thomas Carlyle

“People don't suffer from Asperger's. They suffer because they're depressed from being beat up and left out all the time”

— Justin Mulvaney

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

— George Arthur Buttrick

“I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that…

— Henry David Thoreau

“When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance—for ourselves, as well as others— over time, we can…

— Sharon Salzberg

One interesting thing about greed is that although the underlying motive is to seek satisfaction, the irony is that even after obtaining…

— Dalai Lama

“According to the teachings of Buddha, there are three causes of suffering. These three “poisons”, as they are called, bring aversion, craving,…

— Gabriel Shaw

God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own.…

— George W. Bush

In the wake of the pain, economic loss, and unprecedented global suffering caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, I am greatly saddened that…

— Tasuku Honjo

When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and…

— Gene Veith

To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing; to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering…

— J. W. N. Sullivan

...What torments of pain have you endured that haven't as yet arrived? and may never!

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.”

— Dermot Davis

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

— Isha Judd

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

— Andrew Davidson

Any story that you tell about yourself causes suffering. There is no authentic story.

— Byron Katie

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

— Anais Nin

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“When you truly face your pain you will only see yourself. Your fear was always you.”

— Bryant McGill

The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.

— Juliette Drouet

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

— Ann Voskamp

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

— Edward Abbey

God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering.

— Kenneth E. Hagin

I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

— Cheryl Strayed

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.

— Federico Fellini

“Nothing else cuts through the mist of my anguish like the sunflower of your smiles.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya