Compassion Quote by Anonymous

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

— J. I. Packer

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

— Alphonse Daudet

Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.

— Anais Nin

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of…

— Sarada Devi

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as…

— William S. Burroughs

At some point, we have each said through our tears, Im suffering for a love thats not worth it. We suffer because we feel…

— Paulo Coelho

We like to say we would never want anyone we care about to suffer. But is it because it's we who cannot see them…

— Barkha Dutt

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

— Paulo Coelho

All a person does in a moment of suffering is to suffer. There is not room for anything else.

— Philip O Ceallaigh

However much people try to make me suffer they won't achieve it.

— Joao Cancelo

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference,…

— Honore de Balzac

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar