Suffering Quotes

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer's.

A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.

After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.

For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

To live is to suffer, but to survive, well that's to find meaning in the suffering.

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.