Quotes About Suffering

You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there's a bit of suffering along the way.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Happiness and suffering are feelings - parts of our mind - and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.

Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don't know what's happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country's suffering.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'

North Korea is not the dictator's country; it's 25 million citizens' country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear - love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.