Quotes About Suffering

I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

Doesn't the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn't the world see this injustice?

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren't true... then it hurts you.

I think many times news organizations, whether it's for lack of resources or something else, cover the headlines and don't follow up, even though the story continues for the people living there - they can't leave. I think it's critical that they do these follow-up stories to realize that there is still suffering, and the need is dire.

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there're no jobs.

Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

I spent 51 years under apartheid. I don't imagine suffering. I know it.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

North Korea cannot change because its people don't realize that there is an alternative to their suffering.

I've seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I've been hit, which isn't an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.

Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.

In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

I think Detroit deserves a comedy that's not about suffering.