Suffering Quotes - page 4

Wisdom cometh by suffering. (Aeschylus)
Nothing eases suffering like human touch. View quote
Bobby Fischer
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
War first, one hopes to win then one expects the enemy to lose then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. View quote
Karl Kraus
All that a pacifist can undertake -- but it is a very great deal -- is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate. View quote
Vera Brittain
Yet tears to human suffering are due And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. View quote
William Wordsworth
Marshes that are stagnant and have no outlets either by rivers or ditches, like the Pomptine marshes, merely putrefy as they stand, emitting heavy, unhealthy vapors. A case of a town built in such a spot was Old Salpia in Apulia ... Year after year there was sickness, until finally the suffering inhabitants came with a public petition to Marcus Hostilius and got him to agree to seek and find them a proper place to which to remove their city. View quote
Vitruvius
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight. View quote
Albert Schweitzer
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again. View quote
David D. Burns
Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand. (Patti Smith)
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. View quote
Charles Dickens
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. View quote
Erich Fromm
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture. View quote
Jean-Marie Le Pen
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. View quote
Aristotle
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid. View quote
Franz Kafka
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong They learn in suffering what they teach in song. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal. View quote
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive. (Arthur Henderson)
God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease. View quote
Bernie Siegel
Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed. View quote
Lee Strobel
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive. View quote
Lee Strobel