Suffering Quotes
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.Helen Kelle
Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
We are suffering from too much sarcasm.Marianne Moore
A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.Eric Mascall
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.Tom Stoppard
I have decided that suicide is completely out of the question. I refuse to end the suffering of others... No, I must contemplate homicide and end the suffering of one... ME!!!Anonymous
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!Louise Bogan
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.Norman Maile
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.La Rochefoucauld
The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.Thucydides
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel Proust
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.Edward Dahlberg
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert Green Ingersoll
Happiness is not a reward - It is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - It is a result.Robert G. Ingersoll
But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.Henri Frdric Amiel
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.Athol Fugard
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self - Love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self - Absorption.Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation... and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.Hermann Hesse
Suffering is none the less acute and much more lasting when it is put into words.Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering.Jane Austen
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key.Charles Fletcher Lummis
