Sufferings Quotes

Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it's clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.

I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

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.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.

We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.