Suffering Quotes

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

Deepak Chopra

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

Paulo Coelho

There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

Paulo Coelho

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must.

James Earl Carter, Jr.

I think we are suffering from political impotence. We need political Viagra.

Hugo Chavez

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Pope Benedict XVI

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

Bill Gates

There is no limit to suffering.

Emil Cioran

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering

Emil Cioran

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

Orson Scott Card

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Friends Nothing is as intractable as an untamed heart. The untamed heart is intractable. Nothing is as tractable as a tamed heart. The tamed heart is tractable. Nothing tends toward loss as does an untamed heart. The untamed heart tends towards loss. Nothing tends toward growth as does a tamed heart. The tamed heart tends towards growth. Nothing brings suffering as does the untamed, uncontrolled unattended and unrestrained heart. That heart brings suffering. Nothing brings joy as does a tamed, controlled, attended and restrained heart. This heart brings joy.

Gautama Buddha

Jesus' call to bear the cross places all who follow him in the community of the forgiveness of sins. Forgiving sins is the Christ-suffering required of his disciples. It is required of all Christians.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself, the means of inspiration and survival.

Winston Churchill