Suffering Quote by Matthew Desmond

There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color…

— Hank Aaron

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most…

— Max Lucado

“American writers are too often only witnesses, tourists, to most human suffering and pleasure.”

— Ira Sadoff

“They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“In daily life we experience suffering more often than pleasure. If we are patient, in the sense of taking suffering voluntarily upon ourselves, even…

— Dalai Lama XIV

Why do men learn through pain and suffering, and not through pleasure and happiness? Very simply, because pleasure and happiness accustom one to satisfaction…

— Seraphim Rose

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

— Delmore Schwartz

... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over…

— Louise Bogan

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection…

— Naomi Ragen

“But, you know, if you choose to be with someone you should feel good with them, otherwise it doesn't make sense... How do you…

— Assia Petricelli

“Where there is doubt (shanka), there is misery. The moment one begins to doubt the knowledge that, 'I am Chandubhai,' misery arises. Once one…

— Dada Bhagwan

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and…

— Grace Lee Boggs

“What can we do in any hardship? We can hope with prayerful praise.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.…

— Jim Morrison

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith