Top 1200 Pain And Suffering Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

It is people who go through suffering that have an empathy for the suffering of others.

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.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

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.

I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much.

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

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

The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy.

Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

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

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

Suffering is nothing. It's all a matter of preventing those you love from suffering.

The quiet conscience is the invention of the devil. No one of us may permit any preventable pain to be inflicted even though the responsibility for that pain is not ours. No one may shut his eyes and think that the pain which is therefore not visible, is non-existent.

Our Lord even gives you suffering that you might share the comfort you receive from Him with somebody who is suffering!

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.

At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.

Pain doesnt have a face and pain doesnt have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

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

Rejecting joy to stand in solidarity with the suffering doesn't rescue the suffering.

Veterans served this country because they wanted to prevent the suffering of others,and now too many are suffering themselves.

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

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

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

Hold the sadness and pain of samsara [suffering, confusion] in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun [fundamental awake human nature]. Then the warrior [brave enough to look at & work with reality] can make a proper cup of tea.

Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.

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.

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.

We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

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

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

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.

Who is it that loves and who that suffers? He alone stages a play with Himself; who exists save Him? The individual suffers because he perceives duality. It is duality which causes all sorrow and grief. Find the One everywhere and in everything and there will be an end to pain and suffering.

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

Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths

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

If one woman is suffering, then we are all suffering, and we need to put a voice to that.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

The principal cause of suffering is craving. Once craving is eliminated, much suffering will be eliminated. Still more suffering will be eliminated once ignorance is eliminated. Both craving and ignorance are equally powerful defilements that cause suffering.

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

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

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

All men and women have passions, natural desires and noble ambitions, and also a conscience; they have sex, hunger, fear, anger, and are subject to sickness, pain, suffering and death. Culture consists of bringing about the expression of these passions and desires in harmony.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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.

Like everyone else in the world, I've been devastated by the loss and suffering of so many in South Asia....As a mother, I cannot imagine the pain that they are experiencing. We can all see that it's going to take a long time for those people to rebuild their lives, and they will need our help for years to come.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

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

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.

... I know for sure, that the universe is wise and compassionate. The question then becomes: How can there be such brutality and pain and such suffering in the world if the universe is compassionate and wise. The reason is we put it there. We create it. And it is up to us to stop creating it.

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

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

Few things a doctor does are more important than relieving pain. . . pain is soul destroying. No patient should have to endure intense pain unnecessarily. The quality of mercy is essential to the practice of medicine; here, of all places, it should not be strained.

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

The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.