Suffering Quotes · Page 62

Make a bouquet of the sufferings of Jesus and carry it in the bosom of his soul.

— Paul of the Cross

“From cradle to grave, Talal sprinted through life. I never did see a life extinguished so abruptly.”

— Zeina Kassem

How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!

— Pope Francis

“Pain hurts, just as greed intoxicates and lust burns.”

— Neil Gaiman

I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Adventure ... is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit.

— Laura Miller

“In the laughter of soul, the century-old agony is freed, like petals loosened in spring.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.

— Charles Bukowski

“Man can recover from epic tragedy, he can live through immense hardship and endure the great injustices of life, but take away…

— David Alejandro Fearnhead

Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and…

— Desmond Tutu

I have endured pain and suffering in my life, things haven't always been easy, I have suffered. And now I can help…

— Gemma Collins

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

— Mark Millar

“Schopenhauer says that all the suffering in the world can’t be mere chance. Must be meant. He says life’s a mixture of…

— P.G. Wodehouse

Everyone suffers some injustice in life, and what better motivation than to help others not suffer in the same way.

— Bella Thorne

“You’ve never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.”

— Denis Johnson

To pardon those absurdities in ourselves which we cannot suffer in others is neither better nor worse than to be more willing…

— Alexander Pope

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to…

— Frank Herbert

I'm now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I'm working at turning myself…

— Arthur Rimbaud

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and…

— John Wyndham

I have been true to the principles of nonviolence, developing a stronger and stronger aversion to the ideologies of both the far…

— Joan Baez

“There is a LIGHT in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometime lose sight…

— Anonymous

Im dark, evil, fucked up in the brain, my soul burns in hell, my existance is a disgrace to the whole entire…

— Megannn

the higher the development of women, the more they suffer from the 'patriotic' mandate to bear many children to replace the nation's…

— Ellen Key

“They put me and more 300 companions of misfortune and captivity in the strait and infected basement of a ship. Thirty days…

— Maria Firmina dos Reis

Everybody is going to hurt you,just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

— Nikkie Mae

Suffering is a call for inquiry, all pain needs investigation.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

— Alfred de Musset

“It sounded like elevator music for the tormented souls on their way to hell”

— Beth Fantaskey

We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

You can't just cry about the pain. You can't just pray about the pain. You must eliminate the pain.

— Iyanla Vanzant

I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

— Harrison Ford

“Pain's nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get.”

— Colum McCann

To live is to suffer. But to survive, well that's to find the meaning into suffering.

— DMX

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

— John Greenleaf Whittier

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

— Jack Kornfield

I allowed myself to suffer how jarringly destructive the present feels and how fragile the past.

— Ann Brashares

May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

— Gautama Buddha

His perfect kingdom of killing, suffering and pain Demands devotion, atrocities done in his name.

— Trent Reznor

Pleasure puts you to sleep and pain wakes you up. If you don't want to suffer, don't go to sleep.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings—even those regarded as enemies.”

— Karen Armstrong