Quotes About Suffering

My parents were from Punjab, in Pakistan. We had land there which were reallocated after partition. So I belong to that area which got divided and suffered.

There are two distinctly, almost surreally different narratives in Israel and Palestine... and to a great extent, both are right and both are wrong. Both peoples have suffered greatly and both have legitimate grievances against the other.

Indigenous communities have suffered horribly as a result of residential schools.

I truly, truly suffered depression, to the deep core.

I suffered too much and I want to stop the suffering of other people.

When I say my family suffered for my anti-war protesting, one of the many fallouts was having to send my two sons to America because I couldn't keep control of them when the divorce happened... there are consequences for your actions.

No one should suffer what I suffered. I still dread those scenes when man killed man. I lost my parents, most of my family, by running away.

Mum had a form of blood cancer. She suffered for a long time.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.

Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.