Suffering Quotes - page 12

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. (Gabriel García Márquez)
The monstrous evils of the twentieth century have shown us that the greediest money grubbers are gentle doves compared with money-hating wolves like Lenin, Stalin, and Hitler, who in less than three decades killed or maimed nearly a hundred million men, women, and children and brought untold suffering to a large portion of mankind. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The ego says, ‘I shouldn't have to suffer,' and that thought makes you suffer so much more. It is a distortion of the truth, which is always paradoxical. The truth is that you need to say yes to suffering before you can transcend it. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of the consciousness and the burning up of the ego. View quote
Eckhart Tolle
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. View quote
Antonio Porchia
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering. View quote
Antonio Porchia
My final belief is suffering. And I begin to believe that I do not suffer. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. View quote
Ira Gershwin
You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth. View quote
Cornel West
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering. (Matthieu Ricard)
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal. View quote
Pentti Linkola
I want to be a force for real good. In other words, I know there are bad forces. You know, I know that there are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good. View quote
John Coltrane
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain? View quote
Theodore L. Cuyler
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. View quote
Stefan Zweig
Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. View quote
Stefan Zweig
All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction. View quote
Konrad Lorenz
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture. View quote
Dmitri Shostakovich
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. (Augustine of Hippo)
Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream.... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she-or he, of course, as the case may be-must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective. View quote
Saul Bellow
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader's charisma. What matters is the leader's mission. View quote
Peter Drucker