People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people ….

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get..

I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of sa….

When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to r….

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem….

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering..

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?.

While the Taliban connives with foreign terrorists, the Afghan people suffer from poverty, drought and hunger..

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss.

There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the f….

I believe, not theoretically, but from direct personal experience, that very few of the things that happen to us are purposeless or accidental (and t….

There is no space wider than that of grief..

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another..

The lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets. Well-to-do class….

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire..

The sun by the action of heat makes wax moist and mud dry, hardening the one while it softens the other, by the same operation producing exactly oppo….

A child without an acquaintance of some kind with a classic of literature ... suffers from that impoverishment for the rest of his life. No later int….

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to H….

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited..

Sometimes suffering is a weird attraction..

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it..