Suffering Quotes
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Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.
Penelope Cruz
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People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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You can't lead a true life without suffering.
Mahatma Gandhi
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To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
Dalai Lama
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Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.
Cesar Chavez
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One thing is always wrong-always: to cause suffering in others for the purpose of gratifying one's own pleasures; that is everlastingly wrong.
Lafcadio Hearn
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In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.
Bo Lozoff
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My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.
John Travolta
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It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.
Ted Dekker
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
Dodie Smith
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Suffering is also good, it makes a person rich in charachter.
Betty Smith
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Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.
Oscar Wilde
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Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.
Saadi
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Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake.
Christine Tsai
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
Paullina Simons
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We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.
David Rose
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I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.
Jill Greenberg
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It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.
Naomi Levy
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Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man.
Albert Einstein
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Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.
Elfriede Jelinek
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Unearned suffering is redemptive.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human —” “THEN — I — DON’T — WANT — TO — BE — HUMAN!” Harry roared.
Joanne Rowling
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There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.
Ajahn Chah
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It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.
Kathe Kollwitz