Suffering Quotes

• Suffering had had an effect with which she was familiar. The refusal of self-pity and despair had turned it from lead to fire, burning up the subterfuges and dishonesties below the surface of the inherited veneer of manners and thought that most men and women think are their true selves, and the veneer with them.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Women
  • Fire
  • Manners

• One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, "You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you."

  

  Mother Teresa
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Jesus

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

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Describe
  • Cessation

• In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.

  

  Eyvind Johnson
  • Suffering
  • Mankind
  • Soul And Body

• I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

  

  Edward Hallowell
  • Connection
  • Stress
  • Proportion

• As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Real
  • Home
  • Sick

• They say that “Time assuages” - Time never did assuage - An actual suffering strengthens As Sinews do, with age - Time is a Test of Trouble - But not a Remedy - If such it prove, it prove too There was no Malady.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Time
  • Suffering
  • Trouble

• Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • Suffering
  • Christ
  • Redeemer

• Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Suffering
  • Forget
  • Victims

• When I look back to a recent painting, I can hardly bear th suffering in it.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Suffering
  • Painting

• 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
  • Pain
  • Wealth
  • Prosperity

• The people who do not get jobs are often the most vulnerable in our society, and joblessness is a terrible plight for anyone who suffers from it.

  

  Tim Bishop
  • Jobs
  • Terrible
  • Vulnerable

• Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Passion
  • Suffering
  • Patience

• Perhaps I don't give the impression that I'm hurting on the track. But that is because I am animated by an interior force which covers my suffering.

  

  Noureddine Morceli
  • Suffering
  • Force
  • Track

• The nature of everything is illusory and impermanent. Those with dualistic perception believe suffering is happiness. It is as though they are licking honey from a razor blade. How sad it is that they grasp to a concrete reality. Turn your attention within.

  

  Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
  • Reality
  • Suffering
  • Happiness

• When a director makes a mistake, people suffer. People suffer horribly sometimes.

  

  William H. Macy
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Mistake

• Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

  

  Milan Kundera
  • Animal
  • Compassion
  • Mankind

• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Enjoy

• If we see suffering then we don't have suffering.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Suffering

• Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Suffering
  • Physicians
  • Invalids

• Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

  

  Cassia Leo
  • Sometimes
  • Suffering
  • Needs

• Under the continual contact with the pebbles my feet have become hardened and used to the ground. My body, almost constantly nude, no longer suffers from the sun. Civilization is falling from me little by little. I am beginning to think simply, to feel only very little hatred for my neighbor - rather, to love him.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Body
  • Civilization
  • Hatred

• Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.

  

  Esther Smith
  • Suffering
  • Stuff
  • Sin

• You can't do God's work without suffering.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Suffering

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