Suffering Quotes · Page 65

It would then be brought abruptly to an end, for the brightness had shown suffering the way.

— Markus Zusak

To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life

— Anonymous

People want to get rid of pain, not the cause of the pain itself.

— Ruben Papian

As long as one can suffer, one is living…live and suffer until life is gone.

— Betty Smith

The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.

— Alphonsus Liguori

“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.”

— William Wordsworth

It isn't easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.

— Abhinav Bindra

There's a 95% chance that you're suffering from depression if you relate to THIS.

— Anonymous

I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid,…

— Layne Staley

“In the East they taught us that all suffering comes from desire, and that rough beast would stalk me through my life,…

— Christopher Moore

sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

— Shelley Winters

“do not fall in love with your suffering, never presume that your suffering is in itself a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation…

— Anonymous

Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.

— Pio of Pietrelcina

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the…

— R. C. Sproul

Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights…

— William O. Douglas

“[The sound of the wind] was just more proof that the workings of the world were random, that beauty, like suffering, was…

— Anita Diamant

Society is composed of men, and every man is a FREE agent. Since man is free, he can choose; since he can…

— Frederic Bastiat

Give people pride and they'll live on bread and water, bless their exploiters, and even die for them. Self-surrender is a transaction…

— Eric Hoffer

The condition of truth, is to allow suffering to speak. Which means attend to suffering of the least of these, of the…

— Cornel West

Hospitals are often grim places: being stuck on a ward is excruciatingly boring, especially when you're too ill to follow the plot…

— Dawn Foster

As we look around, it's very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time.…

— Sharon Salzberg

As an old man...looking back on one's life, it's one of the things that strikes you most forcibly-that the only thing that's…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

Oh, if only the suffering soul knew how it is loved by God, it would die of joy and excess of happiness!…

— Mary Faustina Kowalska

Knowledge is the reward of action. For it is by doing things that one becomes transformed. Executing a symbolical gesture, actually living…

— Heinrich Zimmer

Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.

— Ellen G. White

There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

— Mary Augusta Ward

We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God.

— Alistair Begg

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

— Oscar Wilde

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

— Franz Kline

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

— Aberjhani

There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man.

— Cecil Day-Lewis

Yes, one must suffer, even in vain, so as not to have lived in vain.

— Antonio Porchia

I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

“We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

A prizefighter who gets knocked out or is badly outclassed suffers in a way he will never forget.

— Floyd Patterson

When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you stopped suffering when they did.

— Anonymous

Many are willing to suffer for their art. Few are willing to learn to draw.

— Simon Munnery

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

— Steven Erikson

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

— Johann Baptist Metz