Suffering Quotes · Page 127

I suffer for my art and despise the witless moneyed scoundrels who praise it.

— El Greco

If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.

— Karl Marx

“even though we do not want to suffer we create our own suffering by performing non-virtuous actions.”

— Kelsang Gyatso

Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.

— Teresa of Avila

If you can't endure pain, you can't play in the NFL.

— Jerome Bettis

Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

The scourge of life, and death's extreme disgrace, The smoke of hell,--that monster called Paine.

— Philip Sidney

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

— John Milton

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending…

— Jack Kevorkian

It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments…

— Tito Colliander

It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company…

— Gautama Buddha

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment. It is part of the isness…

— Eckhart Tolle

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or…

— William Ellery Channing

Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for…

— Christine Tsai

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with…

— Walter Kaufmann

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

— John of the Cross

Guided by His wisdom, strong in His strength, there maybe for you struggle and suffering, the darkness and the storm. "The disciple…

— Mark Hopkins

“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting…

— Henry Miller

“At midnight on the Emperor’s pavement flit Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit, Nor storm disturbs, flames begotten of…

— William Butler Yeats

Most of the nations that have serious gardening cultures have, or had, empires. You can't have this luxury of pleasure without somebody…

— Jamaica Kincaid

Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If…

— Adyashanti

If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does…

— Nesta Helen Webster

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this…

— David Foster Wallace

“I hadn’t understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.…

— Janet Fitch

“Let the pain & suffering of all that appears to be lost, be soothed, healed & comforted.”

— Eleesha

“Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Subjecting other living things to pain, suffering, and death is the biggest fault in the human race”

— Zoe Rosenberg

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

— Elia Kazan

Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.

— Osamu Dazai

The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.

— Plato

What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.

— Matthieu Ricard

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

— Emile M. Cioran

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

— Gautama Buddha

I learned the relationship between suffering and the success of the team.

— Joao Felix

The suffering of a soul that can suffer greatly -- that and only that, is tragedy.

— Edith Hamilton

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

— Maya Angelou

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

— Anonymous

The worst form of suffering is not knowing what you've done, but not knowing who you are.

— Anonymous

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

— Anonymous