Suffering Quotes
6116 quotes by 3043 authors
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
— Aristotle
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
— Karen Armstrong
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought…
— Chinua Achebe
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
— David Attenborough
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
— Saint Augustine
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
— Saint Augustine
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.
— Jane Austen
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Pain is never permanent.
— Teresa of Avila
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Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
— Teresa of Avila
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against…
— Teresa of Avila
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When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.
— Roger Babson
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
— Lord Acton
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
— Russell Baker
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Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality…
— Alan Ball
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Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy…
— Honore de Balzac
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options…
— Albert Bandura
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My parents gave me a strict upbringing, which at times has caused me to suffer distress but today I am grateful to them for it.
— Brigitte Bardot
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