Quotes About Suffering

Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

In some villages near Allahabad, British soldiers killed aged men, women and children for alleged association with the rebels. Many were simply 'burnt to death'.

There's a certain progression in the journey to God regarding our attitude towards suffering. In the beginning, we flee from suffering. As we mature, we reluctantly accept it as necessary. As the Spirit works more deeply in our hearts, we little by little lose our fear of suffering and become able to rejoice in it, even to love it.

As regards illness, we should follow the advice of competent physicians, and desire to get well so we can serve God, but not refuse to remain ill if that would serve Him better. In the meantime, while we are sick and the outcome is not known, we can very meaningfully offer our suffering in union with the suffering of Jesus for the salvation of the world.

The purest suffering brings with it the purest and most intimate knowing, and consequently the purest and highest joy, because it is a knowing from further within . . . even to the agony of death in order to see God. . . .

Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

Society is a hospital of incurables

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

The enquiry 'Who am I?' is the principal means to the removal of all misery and the attainment of the supreme bliss.

Anything that makes you unconscious of present moment leads to Suffering!

First you decide to suffer, then search for reasons that justify your suffering!

Sometimes even expressing is a curse!

The intensity of Intellectual suffering in Man is same as Emotional suffering in a Woman

Unnapudu Ashwadinchaleni Vadiki, Lenapudu Badhapade Arahata Ledu!

We are attuned to our suffering due the certaininty it brings with it!

We donot qualify as humans going by our acts, but we surely prove through our vulnerability and sufferings!

But remember, anger cannot be fought with anger. Rage cannot be fought with rage. No amount of signal processing can cancel out suffering, or craving, or aversion. If you want to help a mind – or a world – find peace, do exactly that. Help it find peace.

When you suffer, Ananda had told him, When you rage. When you weep. When you crave. That is when you must still your mind.

In war, there are no winners.

Und das Atmen fällt mir ach so schwer.