Suffering Quotes

I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

God lives, feels and suffers in every one of us, and in course of time, His attributes, knowledge, beauty and love will be revealed in each of us.

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

Love that does not know of suffering is not worthy of the name.

When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

The reason why China suffers bitterly from endless wars is because of the existence of feudal lords and kings.

When you hate, the only person that suffers is you because most of the people you hate don't know it and the rest don't care.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering.

Those who worship and adore the Lord through the Guru's Word forget all their pain and suffering.

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.

What is a holy person? The one who is aware of others' suffering.

Hatred, revenge, bitterness - these are negative emotions. The person harbouring those emotions suffers more.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

It may be providence's will that the cause I represent may prosper more by my suffering than by my remaining free.

Strange that so much suffering is caused because of the misunderstandings of God's true nature. God's heart is more gentle than the Virgin's first kiss upon the Christ. And God's forgiveness to all, to any thought or act, is more certain than our own being.

The only negative thing about murder is that when you kills someone they can no longer suffer

For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more.

For the sake of a dying, suffering world count the cost, pay the price and set the captives free

I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.

We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured.

A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you.

Life is pitiful, death so familiar, suffering and pain so common, yet I would not be anywhere else. Do not wish me out of this or in any way seek to get me out, for I will not be got out while this trial is on. These are my people, God has given them to me, and I will live or die with for Him and His glory.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope.

We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear of crosses. . . We have not the courage to carry our cross, and we are very much mistaken; for, whatever we do, the cross holds us tight - we cannot escape from it. What, then, have we to lose? Why not love our crosses, and make use of them to take us to heaven?

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.

All the suffering in the world comes from seeking pleasure for oneself. All the happiness in the world comes from seeking pleasure for others.

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.

I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.