Suffering Quotes

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

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.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Women have a predestination to suffering.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.