Suffering Quotes

• Suffering has always been with us; does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.

  

  Etty Hillesum
  • Suffering
  • Fit
  • Matters

• The meaning of art in a time of suffering, a time of war, is much more intense. People are more focused.

  

  Haris Pasovic
  • Art
  • Suffering
  • Time of war

• We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • Suffering
  • Sin

• Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Suffering
  • Happiness
  • Income

• It is very important to develop a relationship with Jesus. It is amazing to think that because He saw we were suffering and struggling with our flesh, He left heaven, where everything was so wonderful, and voluntarily took those sufferings upon Himself to open a way for us! We also have to suffer, but it's not so hard when we love.

  

  Esther Smith
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Jesus

• 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

• The belief that one's suffering has a greater cosmic purpose, and is thus more exciting and more noble, well, it made a lot of sense to me.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Purpose
  • Belief
  • Sense

• In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Suffering
  • Happiness
  • Destiny

• I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

  

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
  • Suffering
  • I Believe
  • Occupations

• For every tear you shed for someone else's grief, it takes one off of their suffering.

  

  Katie Ashley
  • Suffering
  • Grief
  • Tear

• Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Suffering
  • Anxiety

• What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Suffering

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

  

  Moby
  • Important
  • Vegetarian
  • Appetite

• Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

  

  Meg Wheatley
  • Suffering
  • Listening

• The suffering of my enemies will be a feast to the spirits. When I am old, I will remember the tears they have shed and it will ease my bones.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Remember
  • Tears
  • Old

• My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • Humanity
  • Poor
  • Empathy

• Bodies and minds need breaks or the work suffers, this has been proven and reproven to the point where we don't even need to post links to support it.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Mind
  • Support
  • Suffering

• There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This is to be mindful.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Suffering
  • Sorrows
  • Nirvana

• Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.

  

  Alice Mattison
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• Sometimes educators suffer from the "I already do that" syndrome. In those cases, we feel inadequate if we admit we have a distance to go as learners of our craft.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • Sometimes
  • Suffering
  • Distance

• In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Fear
  • Order
  • Horrible

• Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.

  

  Neil Abramson
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Proud

• I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Awareness

• Today somebody is suffering, today somebody is in the street, today somebody is hungry. ... We have only today to make Jesus known, loved, served, fed, clothed, sheltered. Do not wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will not have them if we do not feed them today.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Today
  • Jesus
  • Waiting

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