Quotes About Suffering

Empathy makes you more aware of other people's suffering, but it's not clear it actually motivates you to take moral action or prevents you from taking immoral action.

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.

Historically whoever advocates truth always suffers. I am just a fighter for the truth. Our truths are universal

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

By suffering comes wisdom.

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

There is a glory in happiness, there is a glory in suffering.

It is our privilege to be allowed to be charitable, for only so can we grow. The poor man suffers that we may be helped; let the giver kneel down and give thanks, let the receiver stand up and permit.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

Misery comes through attachment, not through work.

Spiritual knowledge is the only thing that can destroy our miseries for ever;

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see.

D esire, ignorance, and inequality this is the trinity of bondage

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

We are always mistaking the suffering of others; it's either much worse than we think or not nearly so bad.

My deepest gratitude goes to those we've quoted — men and women who labored long and hard to express in a few words a lifetime of experience; others who rarely wrote but paused in the middle of a busy life or a sleepless night with pen in hand, who wept and found a way to make of their suffering a gift, who laughed and found a way to make us laugh, too.

We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

Often, it is the thought that pain will never end that makes it seem unbearable.