Explore Quotes on Suffering

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

There is a necessity for a regulating discipline of exercise that, whilst evoking the human energies, will not suffer them to be wasted.

We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.

We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us.

In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, Suffering, yet hoping all things.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

Is suffering really necessary?_x000D__x000D_Yes and no._x000D__x000D_If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.

We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering._x000D__x000D_Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?

Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.

Get involved in an issue that you're passionate about. It almost doesn't matter what it is ... We give too much of our power away, to the professional politicians, to the lobbyists, to cynicism. And our democracy suffers as a result.

When your fear touches someone's pain it becomes pity;_x000D__x000D_when your love touches someone's pain, it becomes_x000D__x000D_compassion. To train in compassion, then, is to know_x000D__x000D_all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways,_x000D__x000D_to honor all those who suffer, and to know you are_x000D__x000D_neither separate from nor superior to anyone.

The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering_x000D__x000D_expresses the great natural potential of mind.

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.