Suffering Quotes · Page 92

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

There is no way to be in cyclic existence without creating the causes of suffering.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

I have often lost myself in the sea, ears full of newly cut flowers, tongue full of love and agony.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.

— Jeremy Gilley

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

— Susan Sontag

“If only tears could speak, they would tell the agony of the eyes.”

— Ludiah

Nothing is here in this world that is of any interest at all.

— Frederick Lenz

A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

— Billy Cannon

The people suffer from famine because of the multitude of taxes consumed by their superiors. It is through this that they suffer…

— Laozi

“Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with…

— Elyse Draper

“[..] it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have…

— Nelson Mandela

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from…

— Joanna Trollope

“This is torment for me, Eva. I can’t focus. I can’t sleep. I lose my temper at the slightest irritants. I’m in…

— Sylvia Day

Jesus has many who love the kingdom of God, but few who bear a cross. He has many who desire His comfort,…

— Thomas a Kempis

Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing…

— Mother Teresa

Human existence is a brutal experience to me... it's a brutal, meaningless experience - an agonizing, meaningless experience with some oases, delight,…

— Woody Allen

There is something embarrassing in... the way in which, ... turning suffering into images, harsh and uncompromising though they are, ... wounds…

— Theodor Adorno

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did…

— Henry David Thoreau

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that…

— Albert Camus

I want to listen to people's stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the…

— Clemantine Wamariya

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process.…

— Robert Crais

“There is nothing which is worth ‘doing’ and any attempt to ‘do’ anything, increases bondage.”

— Dada Bhagwan

I'd say my greatest weakness is impatience. I don't suffer fools well.

— Jeb Bush

Southern black gay and bi men are suffering from a self-esteem issue.

— Karamo Brown

“Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.”

— Bryant McGill

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

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

— Simon Munnery

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

— Anonymous

“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

For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.

— Andre Aciman

Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

— Anonymous

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

— Garry Trudeau

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

— Anthony Trollope

Stress is a form of suffering, but it is accepted as normal. And it is normal in our world.

— Eckhart Tolle

Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

— Jack White