Suffering Quotes · Page 70

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

— John Green

“We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]”

— John Green

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.

— Samuel Adams

The torment of love can transform people into wretched monsters

— Mathias Malzieu

All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy where you are, MOVE.

— Timothy Leary

The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

— Charles Wesley

You will learn respect, and suffering will be your teacher!

— Avatar The Last Air Bender

People in pain don’t always see things as clearly as they should

— Nicholas Sparks

“With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark…

— Mary Shelley

I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there's this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can't…

— Joel Kinnaman

“To be so near you without touching you is agony. Your blindness to my feelings is a daily torment, and I feel…

— Julianne Donaldson

I think with all the odd jobs I ever had, there was some kind of enlightenment but, yes, a lot of pain…

— David Boreanaz

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that…

— Pam Brown

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

— Jerry Bridges

Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is…

— Caroline Myss

“He was starting to realize that to always look but never truly be able to touch, was a special kind of torment.…

— Erica Stevens

“I asked the Dalai Lama what it was like to wake up with joy, and he shared his experience each morning. 'I…

— Dalai Lama XIV

All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how…

— Frank Pittman

You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There…

— Rumi

People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of…

— Deepika Padukone

I saw a young sister, just before this service; and I said to her, "When did you find the Lord?" She replied,…

— Charles Spurgeon

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is…

— Anonymous

“[Emilio’s dinner with FM Banier] Gradually I abandon the conversation (suffering because the others might suppose I am doing so for reasons…

— Roland Barthes

“Letting him go There is a particular kind of suffering to be experienced when you love something greater than yourself. A tender…

— Lang Leav

In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.

— Ziggy Marley

I'm standing in the flames Its a beautiful kind of pain~~~

— Anonymous

People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer.

— Merlin Mann

“For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.”

— John Piper

“God doesn't create suffering Claire, we do. We make the world and then we break it.”

— Claire Fontaine

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

— Samuel Rutherford

“Seeing human suffering changes you. It either makes you compassionate or it makes you hard.”

— Jane Wilson-Howarth

It is only the strong who are strengthened by suffering; the weak are made weaker.

— Lion Feuchtwanger

“We are born to suffer, that our suffering might make us strong”

— George R. R. Martin

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

— Antonio Porchia

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

— Anne Frank

Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.

— Stephen Hough

“Having suffered so much, the capacity for suffering had to some extent left him.”

— D. H. Lawrence

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

— John Donne

Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.

— Paul Claudel

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

— Mata Amritanandamayi