Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last. — Thomas a Kempis
Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover… — Patrick Henry
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul… — Georges Bernanos
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.… — Andrea Dworkin
If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in… — Friedrich Schiller
We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy… — Martin Luther
If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,… — Barbara Ehrenreich
We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others. — W. Somerset Maugham
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn. — C.S. Lewis
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. — Edmund Burke
Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together;… — Simone Weil
I cannot be a materialist - but Oh, how is it possible that a God who speaks to all hearts can let Belgravia go laughing… — D. H. Lawrence
Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact. — Andrea Dworkin
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that… — Soren Kierkegaard
In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream. for all of us today, the battle is in our hands.… — Martin Luther
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter… — Adrienne Rich
Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of… — Albert Camus
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far… — Emile M. Cioran
The sensitiveness claimed by neurotic is matched by their egotism: they cannot abide the flaunting by others of the sufferings to which they pay an… — Marcel Proust
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly… — Northrop Frye
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the… — Charles Baudelaire
Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand… — Herbert Hoover

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