Suffering Quotes · Page 101

It's important for the world to see black women as not just the suffering wife or haggard mother.

— Simone Missick

“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”

— Terry Gilliam

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

— Giacomo Casanova

“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

— Mother Teresa

“Bliss and suffering, it seems, always go hand in hand.”

— Kentetsu Takamori

“It is invisible hands that torment and bend us the worst”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

— August Wilson

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

— Saint Augustine

Terence Trent D'Arby was dead. He watched his suffering as he died a noble death. After intense pain I meditated for a…

— Terence Trent D'Arby

“I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I…

— Olatz Campos + Yann Martel Stephen Chbosky

“An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it’s merely…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It's somehow more comforting to imagine that one's suffering is unique, and to measure against what one doesn't know, rather than against…

— Chris Ware

“A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when…

— Søren Kierkegaard

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope…

— Noam Chomsky

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Christ willed to suffer and be despised and do you dare complain of the same? Christ had adversaries and backbiters; and do…

— Thomas a Kempis

It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hopeand resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she already…

— Susan B. Anthony

Who does not sometimes envy the good and the brave, who are no more to suffer from the tumults of the natural…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People will suffer and so will nature, but life is likely to go on with a great deal of loss and mourning.…

— Dale Jamieson

“Hundreds of men crowded the yard, and not a one among them was whole. They covered the ground thick as maggots on…

— Edison McDaniels

“Suffering creates a vivid contrast illuminating joy, happiness, and satisfaction. It is a harsh lesson on the other side of sublime. We…

— Brent Green

“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables. I thought…

— jonathan safran foer

The child to be concerned about is the one who is actively unhappy, [in school]… In the long run, a child's emotional…

— Dorothy H Cohen

Just becoz you don't see me cry doesn't mean I am suffering.

— La Fujo

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

— Dorothy Rowe

The greater the force of your compassion, the greeater your resilience in confronting hardships.

— Dalai Lama

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

— Aeschylus

He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

— Thomas Pynchon

“Allow your pain to cleanse you and burn away what needs to die.”

— Bryant McGill

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

— Sophie Swetchine

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

— Deepak Chopra

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

— Lauren Graham

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

— Alexander MacLaren

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

— Andrew Solomon

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

— Anonymous

“I’m a soldier,’ Nathan said. ‘We’re all soldiers, now. Soldiers don’t leave people behind.”

— Barry Kirwan

Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.

— John Selden

There are no bonds so strong as those which are formed by suffering together

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Our souls have been suffering in a kind of darkness”

— Robert Olmstead