Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

Is there a man in the world who suffers as I do from the gross inadequacies of the human race? — Monty Woolley
I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer… — Ariel Sharon
This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking… — Wendell Berry
I have felt the pain that arises from a recognition of beauty, pain we hold when we remember what we are connected to and the… — Terry Tempest Williams
Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection. — Amit Ray
Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, fuels our love and carries our friendships, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limits... A… — Pat Tillman
There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let… — Olive Schreiner
Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women! — Jean Giraudoux
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of… — Judy Collins
It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be… — Leonardo da Vinci
Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone suffered for you; if you suffer without succeeding,… — Unknown Author
It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are… — Dalai Lama
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability… — Tony Blair
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley
There are very few new things in this world, very few. That's why people that are young, if they're smart, try to profit from the… — Cus D'Amato
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he… — Jean de la Bruyere
The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going to be fulfilled… — Rajneesh
Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional. — Sean Stephenson
On the one hand, then, in the reproductive functions proper-menstruation, defloration, pregnancy and parturition-woman is biologically doomed to suffer. Nature seems to have no hesitation… — Unknown Author
There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen,… — Hippocrates
Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer. — Italo Svevo
Why love, if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore: only the life I have lived. Twice in that life I've been given… — C.S. Lewis
The more you cling to things, The more you love them, The more the pain you suffer, When they're taken from you... — Stephen Sondheim
Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine,… — Peter Abelard
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought… — Phillips Brooks

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