Suffering Quotes
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might be neither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous - - Indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose.Richard Dawkins
Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.Marcel Proust
Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
There are three rings in marriage. The engagement ring... The wedding ring... and the suffering.Trevor Rook
We live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be 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.Benjamin Disraeli
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.Edward Dahlberg
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.Ludwig van Beethoven
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.Gustave Flaubert
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.Thomas Merton
Many people have died for their beliefs? The real courage is living and suffering for what you believe.Christopher Paolini, Author of Eragon and Eldest. Quote from Eragon.
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.Helen Kelle
The mission before us as ambassadors is to assure peace among, as it were, the diplomatic corps of fellow ambassadors. Thus we are to walk in lowliness humility and meekness, which foster longsuffering and enable us to forbear one another in love.Stephen Shobe
Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.M. Kathleen Casey
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga
To endure the cross is not tragedy it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.Dietrich Bonhoeffe
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.Thich Nhat Hanh
The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.Norman Maile
Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference
But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
There are three rings involved with marriage. The engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.Woody Allen
Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.Helen Kelle
What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.Prophet Mohammad
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.Athol Fugard
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.Helen Kelle
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love, or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.Erich Fromm
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.Sigmund Freud
Pain is inevitable suffering is optional.Unknown
A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.Eric Mascall
The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.Akhenaton
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.Unknown
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel
