Suffering Quotes
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If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
William C. Brown -
Suffering and evil will not have the last word.
George Pell
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I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.
Norodom Sihamoni -
A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick -
The world is full of suffering. Birth is suffering, decre- pitude is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings. To face a man of hatred is suffering, to be separated from a beloved one is suffering, to be vainly struggling to satisfy one's needs is suffering. In fact, life that is not free from desire and passion is always involved with suffering.
Gautama Buddha -
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.
Rollo May -
God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
Joni Eareckson Tada
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Thus all things are subject to death, sorrow and suffering. I became aware that I too was of the same nature, the nature of beginning and end. What if I searched for that which underlies all creation, that which is nirvana, the perfect freedom from unconditioned existence?
Gautama Buddha -
All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
Erica Jong -
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
Marcel Proust -
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
Cesare Pavese -
She knows how to suffer and at the same time how to laugh.
Mother Teresa -
Both formerly and now, it is only suffering that I describe, and the cessation of suffering.
Gautama Buddha
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Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
Albert Camus -
The cross means suffering. Suffering's meaning is to be learned through the cross.
Elisabeth Elliot -
We are suffering from a kind of slow-motion barbarization from within.
George Will -
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 -
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 -
Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.
George Washington
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Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace.
Wolfe Tone -
Poor communities, frequently communities of color but not exclusively, suffer disproportionately. If you look at where our industrialized facilities tend to be located, they're not in the upper middle class neighborhoods.
Carol Browner -
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
George Eliot -
I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.
Melissa Leo