Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense… — Hector Berlioz
Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with… — Paulo Coelho
Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure,… — Alexis Carrel
We must delight in each other, make others conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, always having before our eyes our… — John Winthrop
If you suffer from depression, anything that makes you feel has to the most important thing in your life, because it's the only thing that… — Siobhan Fahey
Suffering is seldom an item on our list of requests to the Lord. But when it crosses our path and we are able by his… — Sheila Walsh
He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment,… — William Shakespeare
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire… — J. B. Priestley
I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on… — David Foster Wallace
All the things that human beings suffer from are how their environment treats them, and how the elements of their planet affects their mind and… — Ornette Coleman
Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each… — Dalai Lama
...-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in… — Jack Kerouac
We all know how important love is, yet how often is it really emoted or exhibited? What so many sick people in this world suffer… — Albert Schweitzer
We have to build things that we want to see accomplished, in life and in our country, based on our own personal experiences ... to… — Patsy Mink
I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem in as much as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice… — Henry Bessemer
The heart's affections are divided like the branches of the cedar tree; if the tree loses one strong branch; it will suffer but it does… — Khalil Gibran
Chorus: Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart… — Aeschylus
What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell… — Steve Buscemi
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book… — William Jennings Bryan
Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like… — Rumi
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small… — Mary Wortley Montagu
Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. — Gautama Buddha
Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering. — Gautama Buddha
The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to take the strong… — Margaret Mead
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the being that suffers.… — Peter Singer

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