Suffering Quotes

• Of all the qualities of human beings that are injured, narrowed, or repressed in the Corporate State, it is consciousness, the most precious and the most fragile, that suffers the most.

  

  Charles A. Reich
  • Quality
  • Humans
  • Consciousness

• I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Suffering
  • Broken
  • Touching

• When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • Trying
  • Joy
  • Lifetime

• We suffer more often in imagination than in reality. We must learn to control and focus the force of our imagination on the good, bright side so it is positive and constructive helping ourselves and others, rather than let its force focus on the bad, dark side so it is negative and destructive hurting ourselves and others!

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Reality
  • Focus
  • Dark

• Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Suffering

• It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.

  

  Kathryn Lindskoog
  • People
  • Simple
  • Helping

• All men live in suffering I know as few can know, Whether they take the upper road Or stay content on the low.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Knows
  • Lows

• You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Life
  • Love
  • Loss

• If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Responsible
  • Forgiving
  • Carnage

• What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Suffering
  • Come
  • Emerge

• By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Done
  • Revenge
  • Accomplishment

• The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Suffering
  • Fire
  • Smoke

• Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

  

  George Arthur Buttrick
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Prayer

• The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Problem
  • Company
  • Loneliness

• Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

  

  Joni Eareckson Tada
  • Faith
  • Suffering
  • Gym

• Peace is within oneself to be found in the same place as agitation and suffering. It is not found in a forest or on a hilltop, nor is it given by a teacher. Where you experience suffering, you can also find freedom from suffering. Trying to run away from suffering is actually to run toward it.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Running
  • Suffering
  • Teacher

• No worthy goal can be achieved easily. A virtue is born in suffering.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Goal
  • Born
  • Virtue

• Could you look an animal in the eyes and say to it, 'My appetite is more important than your suffering'?

  

  Moby
  • Important
  • Vegetarian
  • Appetite

• Concerning our possibilities on the international financial markets, the sanctions are severely harming Russia. But the biggest harm is currently caused by the decline of the prices for energy. We suffer dangerous revenue losses in our export of oil and gas, which we can partly compensate for elsewhere. But the whole thing also has a positive side: if you earn so many petrodollars - as we once did - that you can buy anything abroad, this slows down developments in your own country.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Country
  • Energy
  • Financial

• I do not mourn the loss of my sister because she will always be with me, in my heart," she says. "I am, however, rather annoyed that my Tara has left me to suffer you lot alone. I do not see as well without her. I do not hear as well without her. I do not feel as well without her. I would be better off without a hand or a leg than without my sister. Then at least she would be here to mock my appearance and claim to be the pretty one for a change. We have all lost our Tara, but I have lost a part of myself as well.

  

  Erin Morgenstern
  • Would
  • Appearance
  • Annoyed

• Whenever we feel that we are definitely right, so much so that we refuse to open up to anything or anybody else, right there we are wrong. It becomes wrong view. When suffering arises, where does it arise from? The cause is wrong view, the fruit of that being suffering. If it was right view it wouldn't cause suffering.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Feels
  • Causes
  • Fruit

• Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and happiness of a better world,-it is possible still to cling to the conviction of God's merciful purpose towards His creatures, of His parental goodness even in suffering, still to feel that the path of duty, though trodden with a heavy heart, leads to peace.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Perfection

• Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Heart
  • Suffering
  • Intelligence

• One alternative that nearly always relieves our suffering is surrender: we surrender our false self, and our attachment to the notion that we can control anything.

  

  Charles L. Whitfield
  • Suffering
  • Surrender
  • Alternative

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