Suffering Quotes · Page 121

“I will crawl upon my knees just to know the joy of suffering.”

— Sidewalk Prophets

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts.But not knowing which decision to make is the worst of suffering.

— Paolo Coelho

It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

— Jane Austen

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

— Steven Pressfield

Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?

— Nicole Williams

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home.

— Florence King

Without your downs, without your hardships, I don't think you appreciate the ups as much,

— Michelle Wie

“To leave is to suffer,to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The real proof of spiritual poverty is to patiently endure the loss of worldly goods and without any regret when it pleases…

— John Calvin

Mistakes are part of life. They teach us that some things shouldn't be done again. However, mistakes can also lead us to…

— Anonymous

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need…

— Saint Augustine

Persons who have known suffering, have known struggle, have known defeat and loss, have understanding of life if they have self compassion.

— Anil Kumar Sinha

The suffering of our people is greater than our differences. We are not yet free at last, so there is work to…

— Louis Farrakhan

“Hard times are a-coming, and people without useful, practical skills are going to suffer. Or suffer most.”

— Edward Abbey

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

— Saint Augustine

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and…

— Marisha Pessl

The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are…

— David Plouffe

We need to be able to demonstrate that what we do in today's world, in humanitarian aid, the enormous effort to minimize…

— Antonio Guterres

The principles of all genuine liberty, and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by…

— Noah Webster

You have been asking what you could do in the great events that are now stirring, and have found that you could…

— Steven Brust

“So, why is it so important to live our personal calling if we are only going to suffer more than other people?…

— Paulo Coelho

“One of those realizations was this: that life itself is a form of suffering. The rich suffer because of their riches. The…

— Mark Manson

It shouldn't be difficult, then, to make the transposition at this point into the early Christian vision of Jesus and the Spirit…

— Anonymous

Often the thought of pain is actually worse that the pain itself.

— Greg Behrendt

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

— Blaise Pascal

Possible issue of the conscience: today, which shall be my torment?

— Mariana Fulger

Does a little fish, swimming though the net's eye, suffer from inferiority complex?

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.

— Katie Ashley

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

— Anonymous

“How in the world--when what is such knowledge but suffering?”

— Henry James

“Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone”

— Tennyson Alfred

I think it is very good when people suffer. To me that is like the kiss of Jesus.

— Mother Teresa

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

— Billy Graham

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love.

— James Cook

Some [soccer] players suffer four or five fatal injuries per game. That's how tough they are.

— Dave Barry

“I should not act better than anybody, but sure as hell, NOBODY’S better than ME!”

— Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin

“Mom was crying while she cooked, salting domesticity with anguish, the recipe of her life.”

— Justina Chen

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

— Otis Rush

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky