Top 1200 Misery And Suffering Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Accept periods of suffering with gratitude, knowing that suffering can teach you very important lessons.

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you how to stop suffering. That is its purpose.

I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering. I shall never accept that the law can be used to justify tragedy, to keep things as they are, to make us abandon our ideas of a different world. Law is the path of liberty, and must as such open the way to progress for everyone.

The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

Faith drives a wedge between ethics and suffering. Where certain actions cause no suffering at all, religious dogmatists still maintain that they are evil and worthy of punishment. . . . And yet, where suffering and death are found in abundance their causes are often deemed to be good. . . . This inversion of priorities not only victimizes innocent people and squanders scarce resources; it completely falsifies our ethics.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

Submission to suffering is a form of annihilation, but transformation of suffering rekindles a faith that gives life.

Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.

If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible, misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.

So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming - a joy so thrilling that if it was born of misery we remembered even the misery with tenderness.

Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the harmony of nature; and by that Providence which often places antidotes in the neighborhood of poisons, vice was checked by misery, lest it should swell to universal and unlimited dominion.

Why does it help to read others' stories? It is not only that misery loves company, because (I learned) misery is too self-absorbed to want much company. Others' experiences did help with my emotional struggle.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject

Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Nothing can be attained without suffering but at the same time one must begin by sacrificing suffering.

You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of your misery, the laughter about the whole foolishness of your problems, the laughter about the whole absurdity of your suffering.

Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.

Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

If there is no enjoyment in this world, there would not be so much suffering. As suffering really is the frustration of our attempts to enjoy.

The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

We have become terribly vulnerable, not because we suffer but because we have separated ourselves from each other. A patient once told me that he had tried to ignore his own suffering and the suffering of other people because he had wanted to be happy. Yet becoming numb to suffering will not make us happy. The part in us that feels suffering is the same as the part that feels joy.

Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

High school – those are your prime suffering years. They don’t get better suffering than that.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.