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Quotes About Suffering

A little child in Ethiopia will die before this song is through.
~ Rod Stewart
War, what's it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again.
~ Edwin Starr
To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment.
~ Pope Francis
How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!
~ Pope Francis
I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
~ Julie Christie
Producing the vibration of love is based on your ability to feel deep pain...go into those feelings...and to find peace once again.
~ Barbara Marciniak
Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
~ Mortimer Collins
On this International Day of Peace, let us all honor those who have suffered from violence. Let us hold in our hearts the ideal of peace.
~ Kofi Annan
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
~ Anne Frank
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
~ David E. Sorensen
Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?
~ Jackson Browne
War must never be a condition but, rather, a temporary scourge which we suffer as a child does a fever, knowing that health follows the long night of pain and that peace is health.
~ Dan Simmons
We believe in peace. We strongly believe in freedom. Where we see suffering we will help. And rather than try to offset a nation, why not join nations together to achieve kind of big objectives?
~ George W. Bush
Peace is purchased in the currency of loss.
~ Glen Duncan
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in?
~ Oscar Wilde
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
~ Douglas MacArthur
At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?
~ Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
it is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering
~ Radhe Maa
In this world, you have to die to find peace.
~ D.J. Molles, Aftermath
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
~ T. Casey Brennan
You left me. You made a pet out of me, and then you left me. If love were food, I would have starved on the bones you gave me.
~ Cassandra Clare
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
~ Anna Sewell