Suffering Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Suffering
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~ The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted. ~

Samuel Smiles

~ The reward of suffering is experience. ~

Aeschylus

~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. ~

Helen Keller

~ Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite ~

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

~ There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women. ~

Alfred Capus

~ Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope ~

Bible

~ An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering. ~

Byron Katie

~ I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit ~

Grover Cleveland

~ All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ It is not a matter of how much pain or suffering one experiences that deems one as worthy. It is not how productive one is, either. ~

Lena Lees

~ Happiness is not a reward / it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment / it is a result. ~

Robert Green Ingersoll

~ The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. ~

Thomas Merton

~ I understand people's suffering, people's pain, more than you will every know yourself. ~

Princess of Wales Diana

~ If I am to care for people in hospital I really must know every aspect of their treatment and to understand their suffering. ~

Princess of Wales Diana

~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. ~

Helen Keller

~ Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired and success achieved. ~

Helen Keller

~ Sex is unclean, not because of the pleasure, but because of the suffering it brings ~

Theodore Roeszak

~ Grief and sadness knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger than common joys ~

Alphonse de Lamartine

~ Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys. ~

Alphonse De Lamartine

~ Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. ~

Paulo Coelho

~ It is an unfortunate personal tragedy. However, when compared to the vast ocean of the collective tragedy faced by my people, my illness is merely a pebble. I am deeply sad that I am crippled by this illness, unable to contribute anything substantial towards the alleviation of the immense suffering and oppression of my people. ~

Anton Balasingham

~ A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering. ~

Buddha

~ Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. ~

DOROTHY ROWE

~ Karma moves in two directions. If we act virtuously, the seed we plant will result in happiness. If we act nonvirtuously, suffering results. ~

Sakyong Mipham

~ Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. ~

Paulo Coelho

~ Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. ~

Helen Adams Keller

~ The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering. ~

Ben Okri

~ All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. ~

Helen Keller

~ Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity ~

William Wordsworth

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