Suffering Quotes

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy's hand, when you hate mutually.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.