Suffering Quotes · Page 139

If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.

— Anonymous

Foolishness is not a burden, the reasoning behind it is what brings forth the suffering.

— Anonymous

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

— Ellie Kemper

“You're my grand and my torment ... you are my life and my love.”

— S.L. Naeole

There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion.

— Matthieu Ricard

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

— Vin Scully

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

— Aeschylus

Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.

— Seneca

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

— Frank Gehry

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out…

— Henri Nouwen

I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must…

— Paul Washer

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has…

— Stefan Zweig

The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities…

— Eduardo Galeano

Hamas, they are using civilians' lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their…

— Mosab Hassan Yousef

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born…

— Edouard Bourdet

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we…

— Louis de Montfort

Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What…

— Queen Victoria

“for the writers of the Jewish Scriptures, details concerning the afterlife were murky. Solomon wrote that “the living know that they will…

— Rachel Held Evans

Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia…As a mother,…

— Celine Dion

Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

“If one cannot see in the birth, life, and death of Jesus the Christ that this a reflection of our need to…

— James Patrick Lane

When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there are no…

— Carlos Castaneda

“To suffer as a Christian carries no shame. Peter concludes: "Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit…

— R.C. Sproul

I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings,…

— Julian Barnes

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.

— Laura Z. Hobson

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

— Claire Cook

“Out of our suffering we emerge. Our struggles are really our only hope.”

— Bryant McGill

Based on my own experience, I guess immense suffering is part of the magic of Hollywood.

— Lorin Morgan-Richards

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

— Tara Brach

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

— Anonymous

There is a pleasure in poetic pains / Which only poets know.

— William Cowper

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

— Ethel Waters

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

— James Russell Lowell

“It is not the outer objects that entangle us. It is the inner clinging that entangles us." - Tilopa”

— Lama Surya Das

“Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.”

— Kamand Kojouri

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

— Meher Baba

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

— Brigitte Bardot

I go through pain every day, but it ain't the pain of how it used to be growing up.

— Rich Homie Quan

What we suffer for is enriched by our suffering until it becomes priceless.

— Mary Catherwood