Suffering Quotes

• If the question was did we want to delay the revelation?... Yeah, you want to delay it as long as possible because the audience knows that that moment is coming and you want to make them wait for it. They have to suffer a bit.

  

  William Mapother
  • Long
  • Moments
  • Waiting

• I can truly say, after an experience of seventy years, that all the cares and anxieties, the trials and disappointments of my whole life, are light, when balanced with my sufferings in childhood and youth from the theological dogmas which I sincerely believed. . . . The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstitions of the Christian religion.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Soul
  • Church
  • Christian

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

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Children
  • Suffering
  • Immigration

• The health benefits, both mental and physical, of humor are well documented. A good laugh can diffuse tension, relieve stress, and release endorphins into your system, which act as a natural mood elevator. In Norman Cousin's book, Anatomy of an Illness, Cousin's describes the regimen he followed to overcome a serious debilitating disease he was suffering from. It included large doses of laughter and humor. Published in 1976, his book has been widely accepted by the medical community.

  

  Cherie Carter-Scott
  • Book
  • Community
  • Stress

• God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.

  

  Nicholas Wolterstorff
  • Faces
  • Sorrow
  • Share

• Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Drinking
  • Drunk
  • Ignorant

• Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

  

  Mother Angelica
  • Pain
  • Sometimes
  • Eye

• Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

  

  Epictetus
  • Power
  • Suffering
  • Arises

• As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • Experience
  • Rock
  • Feet

• Suffering does not discriminate.

  

  Shania Twain
  • Suffering

• Whoever makes me unhappy for a day, I will make suffer a lifetime.

  

  Empress Dowager Cixi
  • Lifetime
  • Unhappy
  • Unhappiness

• To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

  

  D. A. Carson
  • God
  • Experience
  • Suffering

• Each painting contains so much suffering.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Suffering
  • Painting
  • Contains

• All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Mind

• 'Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards'.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Words
  • Suffering
  • Fly

• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Trust
  • Gratitude

• But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings should not play at. Nations would do well To extort their truncheons from the puny hands Of heroes, whose infirm and baby minds Are gratified with mischief, and who spoil, Because men suffer it, their toy the world.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Baby

• Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

  

  Kirk Cameron
  • People
  • World
  • God

• Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Together
  • Suffering

• All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Suffering
  • Wanting
  • Lack

• Normally, the thin-skinned have an endless array of excuses for why their workaday interactions are so much harder to bear for them than for the rest of us. In the eyes of the self-suffering, they are being victimised, used and always abused, when they're actually experiencing exactly the same body blows as the rest of us.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Why
  • Eyes
  • Rest

• We should practice by showing one another love and helping one another. It is a mistake to pursue happiness and to seek to the avoid suffering by deceiving and humiliating other people. We must try to achieve happiness and eliminate suffering by being good-hearted and well-behaved.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Happy

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

  

  Jimmy Gomez
  • People
  • Hand
  • Suffering

• When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Important
  • Help
  • Question

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