Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for… — Charlotte Bronte
For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of… — Alfred the Great
True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others. — Joy Harjo
Because what happens is, as the economy suffers, tax revenues go down. But unlike businesses, where at least your variable costs go down, in government… — Meg Whitman
True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art… — Lars von Trier
The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject — Theodor Adorno
In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired… — Malala Yousafzai
Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy. — Mahatma Gandhi
This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me… — Swami Vivekananda
Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence… — Samuel Rutherford
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. — Thomas Carlyle
There is no limit to suffering. — Emile M. Cioran
This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do… — Emile M. Cioran
We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering. — Emile M. Cioran
Anybody who witnesses the suffering of animals and has a glimmer of hope of reducing that suffering can't take the position that it's all or… — Ingrid Newkirk
There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom. — Victor Hugo
In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the… — Victor Hugo
I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is… — Osama bin Laden
It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own… — Samuel Johnson
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so… — Jefferson Davis
I want to live fully, very intensely. I would never want to live partially, suffering from illness or injury. If I ever happen to have… — Ayrton Senna
We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success.… — Nelson Mandela
We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the… — Ban Ki-moon
Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue… — Wangari Maathai

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