Quotes About Suffering

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

Jesus was crucified for doing nothingAnd God is worshiped for even less.

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

...if you give such a creature two blows with a whip, there are, indeed, two pains: but there is no co-ordinating self which can recognise that 'I have had two pains'.

A strong drink can numb the soul as good as any prayer

When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. 'My husband doesn't respect me.' 'I should be thinner.' Those are stories. When there's no story, there's no suffering.

Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples.

It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect it's presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.

Whether we wound or are wounded, the blood that flows is red.

There can be no global security without respect for children. We have to be more than just observers of children's suffering, we have to be partners with them in their struggles.

Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal.

Pain doesn't respect age, my lady.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?' 'You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.