Quotes About Suffering

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

A billion people died on the news tonight.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

Pain is not a conduit to art or joy

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Common one, my illuminated one, oh my high in the art of suffering. Take a walk with me.

My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand.

We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!

It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.

But maybe that's how it is with art. You suffer, and in the end, everyone thinks it's cool.

Pain fuels artistry and creativity. Harness your suffering and become a master of your art.

Nothing's better for art than a little old-fashioned suffering.

The identification of fantasy is always an attempt to avoid one's own suffering: the identification of art is the sharing in the suffering of another.

Suffering is so real & I walk amongst so many who have no idea how much my soul is aching to be healed.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

Whoever possesses the will to suffering within himself has a different attitude towards cruelty: he does not regard it as inherently harmful and bad.

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.

In general, empathy is easier the more we can identify with someone. When we can genuinely envision ourselves in a situation, it's possible to intuit what that person's suffering might feel like.