Suffering Quotes · Page 83

Two things are inevitable in life and that is chaos and suffering.

— Jeremy Limn

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

— Jose Marti

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

— Aeschylus

Suffering for love is how I have learned practically everything I know, love of grandmother up and on.

— Djuna Barnes

“Substantial things deaden a man without suffering; love awakens him with enlivening pains. ”

— Kahlil Gibran

Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.

— Martha Beck

God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping.

— Sathya Sai Baba

The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.

— Anonymous

“It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place…

— Georgi Vladimov

In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.

— Chris Burkard

The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still…

— Nhat Hanh

And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

— Mechai Viravaidya

“He would welcome the opportunity to offer his suffering up to God. Me, I could not help but think that there was…

— Jacqueline Carey

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

— Rumi

You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we "inter-are"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I…

— Nhat Hanh

“I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see the good…

— George MacDonald

Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can…

— Peter Singer

Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces,…

— Joseph Campbell

All the world suffers from the usury of the Jews, their monopolies and deceit. They have brought many unfortunate people into a…

— Pope Clement VIII

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The…

— Wendell Berry

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only…

— Walter M. Miller, Jr

What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my…

— Henry Miller

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

— Alan Perlis

“The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering.”

— Melvin Jules Bukiet

Government is basically a parasite, and if the host doesn't grow, then government suffers.

— Jeb Bush

“As fire tempers steel, so hardship can temper the human soul.”

— Raja (Arasa) Ratnam

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

— Elizabeth Bowen

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

— Helen Keller

Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The Winter inside me was torment and agony—but at least when I was immersed in it, I couldn’t feel.”

— Jim Butcher

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

— Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

— Lester B. Pearson

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

— Anna Seward

He who has never experienced hurt, cannot experience true love..!!

— Anonymous

People simply defame death ... life is the one that gives the suffering...

— AJ

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

— Oswald Chambers

Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed... it means that the damage no longer control our lives.

— Anonymous

Suffering makes me hungry. Suffering allows me to put some hurt in my opponent. It's a good thing.

— Henry Cejudo