Suffering Quotes

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

What I remember as a child is that other kids didn't care about suffering. I always did.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

There is no love without suffering.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.