Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get… — Cesar Chavez
We are suffering. We have suffered. And we are not afraid to suffer in order to win our cause. — Cesar Chavez
When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human. — Cesar Chavez
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have suffered not only… — Cesar Chavez
When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us, so it is how we… — Cesar Chavez
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine
Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease. — George W. Bush
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to… — John Stuart Mill
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse
It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are suffering from too much sarcasm. — Marianne Moore
[T]hat the opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his… — Thomas Jefferson
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation… — Woody Allen
Why not me? Suffering, she understood, is, in fact, random, universal. — Gloria Vanderbilt
If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are… — Tertullian
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations. — Andre Gide
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost.… — Dante Alighieri
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In… — Dalai Lama
When you realize that suffering and discomfort are the call to inquiry, you may actually begin to look forward to uncomfortable feelings. You may even… — Byron Katie
Only through suffering can we find ourselves. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The more we think of others, the happier we are. The more we think of ourselves, the more suffering we feel. — Dalai Lama
If your goal is to avoid pain and escape suffering, I would not advise you to seek higher levels of consciousness or spiritual evolution. — M. Scott Peck
We have resolved to endure the unendurable and suffer what is insufferable. — Hirohito

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