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Quotes About Suffering

Bitter is wine, but it sweetens all bitterness.
~ Moses ibn Ezra
There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness; and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much.
~ Mother Teresa
One must really have suffered oneself to help others.
~ Mother Teresa
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
~ Mother Teresa
Please choose the way of peace…In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.
~ Mother Teresa
There are many in the world dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
~ Mother Teresa
I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.
~ Unknown
O homem deseja muitas coisas e luta por adquiri-las, crendo que sua posse lhe trará felicidade. Isso o conduz, inevitavelmente, a decepções e sofrimentos. A pessoa prudente, que sabe o que é e aquilo de que realmente necessita, evita todas as perturbações, pois está buscando o real e não coisas efêmeras.
~ Mouni Sadhu
We have been terrorised by what happened in America and we express our condolences to the American people who suffered from this unexpected catastrophe and a new world war.
~ Muammar al-Gaddafi
Suffering in search of truth gives true meaning to the truth.
~ Unknown
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
~ Muhammad Ali
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
~ Muhammad Ali
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.
~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Consider, Mighty Creator of all things, the differences between Sindbad's life and mine. Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land! What has he done that you should give him this pleasant life— what have I done to deserve so hard a fate?
~ Unknown
Oh, Maharaj! Maharaj! Won't you draw us some water, please? We beg you. We have been waiting here a long time, we will be grateful,' shouted the chorus of voices as they pressed towards him, some standing up, bending and joining their palms in beggary, others twisting their lips in various attitudes of servile appeal and abject humility as they remained seated. Either
~ Unknown
His feelings would rise like spurts of smoke from a half-smothered fire, in fitful, unbalanced jerks when the recollection of some abuse or rebuke he had suffered kindled a spark in the ashes of remorse inside him.
~ Unknown
No one has the right to ignite a war and lead an occupation and armies to conquer people, invading them and make them suffer all kinds of torture, murder, expulsion, displacement, bombing and terrorism by different lethal prohibited weapons and then come and speak as the savior of the people or a defender of their rights.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
Your coldness serves to emphasize my own inadequacy, and makes me feel that the best solution might be to expire.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
S?r demek yaln?zl?k demektir,hele küçük bir çocuk için büyük yaln?zl?k,erken yaln?zl?kt?r...?nsan?n kendine "sorun" olmas?,ba?kalar? yüzünden de?il de,kendi yüzünden ac? çekmeye ba?lamas?,o ya?lardaki bir çocuk için ta??makta zorlanaca?? erken bir ezad?r.
~ Unknown
Did you ever bury thirty-five men in a place in back of your house, thirty-five tunnel workers the doctors didn't attend, died in the tunnel camps, under rocks, everywhere, world without end.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
It is growing worse every day. At night "I get up to catch my breath. If I remained "flat on my back I believe I would die.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being alone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon flight from reality. (frm "Part of Our Time, Some Monuments and Ruins of the Thirties," about American Communist movement.)
~ Murray Kempton
A believer is as the two pans of a scale, that whenever his faith increases his afflictions increase.
~ Unknown
1. Love through suffering. 2. Love through a bunch of problems, through scandals and hatred and anger. Love is the only rational phenomenon. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich
~ Unknown