Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

I become a happier man each time I suffer — Lance Armstrong
I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the… — Jimmy Carter
they have no business administering government policies in a country that favors freedom and equality. ... Can you imagine having the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as… — Pat Robertson
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel. — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us… — Rich Mullins
I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering. — Nhat Hanh
Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without… — Paramahansa Yogananda
An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
Humans suffer from self-centred notions as to the nature of life. Humans assume that alien life forms should conform to standards that match our own,… — Steve Perry
He seemed to be talking about my fears, my insecurity, and my unwillingness to see what was wonderful because tomorrow it might disappear and I… — Paulo Coelho
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand
I am the perpretor of my suffering - but only all of it. — Byron Katie
Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity,… — Joseph Story
The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with. — George Washington
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it… — Thomas Paine
The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and… — George Orwell
People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery… — Kenneth Roberts
If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive. — Rajneesh
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. — Jorge Luis Borges
There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it… — Thomas Huxley
But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and… — Lord Byron
We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was… — Queen Victoria
If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for… — C.S. Lewis
For it is the suffering flesh, it is suffering, it is death, that lovers perpetuate upon the earth. Love is at once the brother, son,… — Miguel de Unamuno

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