Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — Edward Abbey
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. — Edward Abbey
Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? — Edward Abbey
I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who… — Edward Abbey
But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering… — Mercy Otis Warren
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to… — Samuel Adams
Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy… — Thomas Jefferson
Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our… — Robert Adams
I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is… — William Eggleston
The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to… — Garry Trudeau
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness… — Margaret Sanger
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star, such riches are… — Vikram Seth
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of… — Carl Jung
Once an individual's search for meaning is successful, it not only renders him happy but also gives him the capability to cope with suffering — Viktor E. Frankl
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral… — Robert M. Hutchins
Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the… — William James
We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must… — William James
The melancholy joys of evils pass'd, For he who much has suffer'd, much will know. — Homer
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what… — Thucydides
For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life. — Aeschylus
I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve… — Marat Safin
The best thing about rain forests is they never suffer from drought. — Dan Quayle
Should one permit an infidel to continue in his role as a Corrupter of the Earth, the moral suffering of the infidel will be all… — Ruhollah Khomeini
It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any… — Leo Tolstoy
Nothing eases suffering like human touch. — Bobby Fischer

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