Suffering Quotes

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.

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

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

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.

Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.