Suffering Quotes

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

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.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

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.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.