Quotes About Suffering

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. 'Forgive me Lord.' For what, I didn't know.

It's from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.

Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.

I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It's an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It's really just the way children communicate.

One of the things I'm learning is that crisis passes, and for anyone suffering I think it's important to know that.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our part to relieve that suffering when we can.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Sometimes when you're suffering really intensely, you can't pray for yourself.

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.