Suffering Quotes

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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.

I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.

Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.