Suffering Quotes · Page 94

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

— Jhene Aiko

“Love that cannot suffer is not worthy of that name.”

— Anonymous

... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons.

— Eckhart Tolle

Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.

— Pat Conroy

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

— Flannery O'Connor

“Without the threat of suffering, we can’t experience true joy.”

— Neal Shusterman

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

— Timothy Keller

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

— Leonard Cohen

Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so…

— Kadmi Cohen

“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.”

— Anonymous

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the…

— Julius Gordon

They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what…

— Alan Watts

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Yoga is many things to many people, but in its full potential the practice of yoga can provide the means to transform…

— Sharon Gannon

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“You watch teenage girls and feel shivers up and down your arms -- those poor creatures don't know the first thing about…

— Alice Hoffman

We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to…

— David Foster Wallace

She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having…

— John Green

What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecurities. She is looking for someone…

— Mark Barrowcliffe

We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all…

— Arvind Kejriwal

“Under the trees several pheasants lay about, their rich plumage dabbled with blood; some were dead, some feebly twitching a wing, some…

— Thomas Hardy

“No doubt Pain as God's megaphone is a terrible instrument; it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. But it gives the…

— C.S. Lewis

“When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on…

— Paul E. Miller

We are closest to Christ when sharing the world’s misery. Think you Jesus came to remove our pains? Wherever did you get…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Look at the world, all the suffering... Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.

— Asma Jahangir

Suffering makes you deep. Travel makes you broad. In case I get my pick, I'd rather travel.

— Judith Viorst

Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.

— Anthony de Mello

“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

— John Steinbeck

My sight is bad, my hearing is bad, I feel bad, but I don't suffer, I don't complain.

— Jeanne Calment

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

— Marcel Proust

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

— Shunryu Suzuki

For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help,

— Pope Francis

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

— Geoffrey Wood

Blood streams in sacrifice; yet anguish finds no cure.

— Euripides

“People always seemed to be in awe of the infliction of pain.”

— Ethan Cross

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

— George Meredith

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Suffering is like an echo - reflecting it only prolongs it.”

— James L. Papandrea

I'm a really strong guy. I can deal with a lot of things. But I can't deal with anybody suffering.

— Patrick Beverley