Suffering Quotes

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher - and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

One principle I've been fighting for that doesn't endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.

The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.

He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.

That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.

It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.

It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose - or, if there are several, at least one of them - is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.

I wish we didn't have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they've fled.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.

Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.

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

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.

Grief causes suffering and disease.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

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

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by - those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.