Suffering Quotes

6116 Suffering quotes by 2923 unique authors

It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
God may thunder His commands from Mount Sinai and men may fear, yet remain at heart exactly as they were before. But let a man… — John Bertram Phillips
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from… — Edmund Burke
To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring,… — Watchman Nee
The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in… — Theodore Hesburgh
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own… — Mario Puzo
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered. — Oswald Chambers
There is much suffering in the world - physical, material, mental. The suffering of some can be blamed on the greed of others. The material… — Mother Teresa
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.… — Dalai Lama
Nothing of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of… — Thomas A. Edison
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other. — Athol Fugard
We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed. — Thomas a Kempis
Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,… — Primo Levi
One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a… — H. L. Mencken
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated… — Oscar Arias
I am convinced that the truest act of courage, the strongest act of manliness, is to sacrifice ourselves for others in a totally nonviolent struggle… — Cesar Chavez
I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill,… — Poul Hartling
We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering and… — Unknown Author
We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice. — Sulak Sivaraksa
It was meant to be that life would be a challenge. To suffer some anxiety, some depression, some disappointment, even some failure is normal. Teach… — Boyd K. Packer
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God's best gift to man. — Pliny the Elder

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