Suffering Quotes · Page 114

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

— Mark Dever

“Beauty for a life long, it is an agony of torture.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Governor Romney is suffering from political amnesia.

— Kelly Ayotte

“Pain always makes me antagonistic--are you any different?”

— V.C. Andrews

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

— Bernie Mac

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

— Plato

Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.

— Bianca Jagger

Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish.

— Proverbs 31:6

“A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to…

— Sharon Salzberg

It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures…

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

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

— Boonaa Mohammed

Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created.

— Noah Levine

We sat on the front porch doing an everyday thing, you gave me light you gave me comfort. Until the day you…

— Katie Vang

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing…

— Bertrand Russell

“To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the…

— Tom Althouse

The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell,…

— John Wesley

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how…

— Anne Lamott

Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs.…

— Nicholas D. Kristof

From these prejudices there arises conflict, transient joys and suffering. But we are unconscious of this, unconscious that we are slaves to…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“It was a godless sound; one of those low-keyed, insidious outrages of Nature which are not meant to be. To call it…

— H.P. Lovecraft

I will probably have a tendency to lean toward trying to resolve the issues that negatively impact black people, but the overall…

— David Banner

“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he…

— Ashim Shanker

“Master Nathaniel looked at him. The fixed stare, the slightly-open mouth, the rigid motionless body, fettered by a misery too profound for…

— Hope Mirrlees

... the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

— Malcolm Turnbull

I'm going to be a voice for Californians who are suffering because California can't do the basics.

— Kevin Faulconer

O Lord, never suffer us to think that we can stand by ourselves, and not need thee.

— John Donne

There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain.

— Karl Marx

It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.

— William Blackstone

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

— Anne Rice

“But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.”

— Tom Dolby

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

— Richard Rohr

[Jesus] was born and baptized that by his suffering he might purify the water.

— Ignatius of Antioch

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

— George Eliot

“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?”

— Mary Shelley

An artist needs to live to create, and to live means to suffer.

— Joe Wright

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

— Charles Wesley

It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege.

— Louise Bourgeois

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

— Edward Young

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.

— Jane Austen