Suffering Quotes · Page 78

Getting hurt is inevitable. You can never avoid it but suffering from it, is always a choice!

— Nova Rosa

A friend who visits you when you are suffering is your best friend.

— Vikrant Parsai

“A person who is too proud in love will suffer from the devastating bitterness in the end.”

— Eraldo Banovac

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

— Alexandre Dumas

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do so. I do not know, but I feel it, and am…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

— Francis Bacon

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

— Mary Oliver

A self - a me - exists in every thought and every emotion. Suffering arises through complete identification with thinking and emotions.

— Eckhart Tolle

“The body is the subconscious made visible. To ignore its whispers is to mute the very core of human suffering.”

— Laurence Galian

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that they are a being just like us, who has faced much suffering…

— Jack Kornfield

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished…

— Mother Angelica

But for a song like 'Paprika,' I typically feel like I need to experience anguish a lot of the time to feel…

— Michelle Zauner

Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises.

— Anonymous

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

— Brad Hall

To care only about your pain and suffering, and disregard the emotional toll of others is hypocritically sub-human.

— Willie D

To be a spiritual warrior means to develop a special kind of courage, one that is innately intelligent, gentle, and fearless. Spiritual…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through…

— Herman Melville

When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your…

— Frederick Lenz

Some may more quietly commemorate the suffering, struggle, and sacrifice that has triumphed over much of what was wrong with the original…

— Thurgood Marshall

Without reason, why bother? Existence needs purpose: to be able to endure the pain of life with dignity; to give us a…

— Sarah Winman

“ I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. I feel, therefore I am is a…

— Milan Kundera

“There is an old Greek saying that men are tormented not by things themselves but by what they think about them. If…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering the converse does. The brave who focus and all…

— Ann Voscamp

“No matter what choices we make in life, suffering is always a part of what follows.”

— Christine Johnson

“Suffering usually relates to wanting things to be different from the way they are.”

— Allan Lokos

“The agony of defeat is always greater than the pain of preparing for victory.”

— Rick Julian

“Hope, that palliative of every human suffering: in desperation, we cling to the flimsiest of straws.”

— Cyrus Mistry

“...the very "purpose of life" - the goal of avoiding suffering and discovering happiness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Suffering does make us more sensitive until it crushes us completely.”

— Edmund White

Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools.

— Simon Campbell

ONE word can remove Friendship, Relationship, Even Hardship

— Anonymous

“The best remedy for a man in his suffering is to submit to his Sovereign LORD.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

We can't take for granted how people who are seeing the suffering are feeling.

— Judi Love

No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.

— Scott Spencer

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If we prosper only through the suffering or death of another, then that is not prosperity.”

— Kate Elliott

Sometimes I think that novelists suffer from P.C.S.: Perpetual Childhood Syndrome.

— Simon Mawer

Men cry because things are not what they ought to be.

— Albert Camus

“If you want to make a difference in the world... prepare to suffer.”

— Jeff Vines