Top 1200 Suffering And Death Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

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

A Separation Sociology produces a Separation Pathology, pathological behaviors of self-destruction, engaged in individually and collectively, and producing suffering, conflict, violence, and death by our own hands.

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

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

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

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

I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

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.

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

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

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.

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

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

[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.

There will be no major solution to the suffering of humanity until we reach some understanding of who we are, what the purpose of creation was, what happens after death. Until those questions are resolved we are caught.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

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

Laughter. Yes, laughter is the Zen attitude towards death and towards life too, because life and death are not separate. Whatsoever is your attitude towards life will be your attitude towards death, because death comes as the ultimate flowering of life. Life exists for death. Life exists through death. Without death there will be no life at all. Death is not the end but the culmination, the crescendo. Death is not the enemy it is the friend. It makes life possible.

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

As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.

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

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

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

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

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

I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.

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

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

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.