Quotes About Suffering

Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit.

The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.

God has allowed hard things in your life so you can show the world that your God is great and that knowing Him brings peace and joy, even when life is hard.

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

Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.

A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.

I now understand what Christ suffered in Gethsemane as well as any man living.

As long as hunger exists, peace cannot prevail.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

What is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.

In the name of peace They waged the wars ain't they got no shame

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace.