Quotes About Suffering

We blossom not in spite of but because of. I think of every experience as my teacher, most especially the difficult ones. I believe this is the role of suffering. Suffering cracks us open to allow for new light. Yet, we can choose to accept the light or hide under our bushel.

When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.

Knowledge is wonderful and truth serene But man in their service bleeds.

Suffering is our call to attention, our call to investigate the truth of our beliefs.

Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer.

The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace.

Pain itself destroys pain. Suffering itself frees man from suffering.

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

If we can revert to the truth, then a great deal of one's suffering can be erased, because a great deal of one's suffering is based on sheer lies.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

Agony is truth its our connection to the living I accept it as perfection and keep on existing in the now

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

We must suffer in order to go to God. We forget this truth far too often.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit.

In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Pain is truth; all else is subject to doubt.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth. For suffering is objectivity that weighs upon the subject