Suffering Quotes · Page 117

Jesus himself wants my sufferings; He needs them for souls.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Only two things can reveal life's great secrets: suffering and love.

— Paulo Coelho

Without hope, there is no despair. There is only meaningless suffering.

— Anonymous

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

— Audre Lorde

“understanding the ultimate source of your suffering doesn’t, by itself, help very much.”

— Robert Wright

The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.

— Salman Rushdie

“Help me to get my eyes off my suffering and onto you, God.”

— Shirley Corder

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

— Henry David Thoreau

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others…

— Elie Wiesel

Suffering is the price of being alive, and it is music and singing and art that has helped me live through some…

— Judy Collins

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors…

— Thomas Jefferson

If souls can suffer alongside, and I hardly know it, because the spirit of discernment is not in me, then I know…

— Amy Carmichael

Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.

— Rose George

Love has three kinds of origin, namely: suffering, friendship and love. A human love has a corporal and intellectual origin.

— Boethius

“I saw that she didn't want to answer that question and so I asked again: when mouths close it's because there's something…

— Paulo Coelho

Hope has a thick skin and will endure many a blow; it will put on patience as a vestment and will endure…

— John Bunyan

There's really no such thing as the agony of dying. I'm quite sure that pain is shut off at the moment of…

— Lewis Thomas

One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you…

— Scott Stossel

“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs;…

— Black Elk

“The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny;…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I would sooner be robbed by a fan than a company. The fan may be broke and have but one choice. There…

— Mickey Newbury

“I cannot write myself. What, after all, is this "I" who would write himself? Even as he would enter into the writing,…

— Roland Barthes

“This last week has been a little hell for both of us simply because I didn't understand my own feelings. And because…

— Paulo Coelho

“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?”

— Mary Oliver

The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

— Gregory David Roberts

It's very complex suffering from mental health, I think.

— Lola Young

“Dealing with the loss of Kelsey should have made her more attuned to the agony of others,”

— Kylie Brant

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

— James Beard

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

— Leo Buscaglia

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

— James A. Garfield

“For a man burning to venture into the unknown, this spell of enforced idleness was torment.”

— Kevin Jackson

It's not the problem that causes our suffering; it's our thinking about the problem.

— Byron Katie

There's no point in suffering. You could just have been having a good time. Because life is very short.

— CMAT

The central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering.

— John Townsend

This is what it means to be a slave; to be abused and bear it; compelled by violence to suffer wrong.

— Euripides

Pigs may not be as cuddly as kittens or puppies, but they suffer just as much.

— James Cromwell

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

— Phil McGraw

God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

— Joni Eareckson Tada