Suffering Quotes (755 Quotes)

Only a suffering people have any virtue.

People in this world are busy with earning money,loving people,quarreling with each other,protecting their loved ones,being jealousy,hating their enemies,over taking people in many ways.But all these activities would be lasting for a limited time.Humans understand the emptiness of their lives when they get sick,then they think about only their sickness but the other things in life and they just struggle to get recovered from suffering or die without suffering.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

This cancer genome atlas project is all about the progress that is necessary for us to make cancer a chronic and manageable condition that no longer causes the suffering and death that we see all around us.

suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

At a time when our country needs forthright leaders, this administration gives us two men more concerned with partisan spin than with human suffering. Brown and Chertoff failed America, and they must be fired immediately,

You've got to put me on a different scale than the little black preacher sitting over there that's supposed to be just getting by because the people are suffering.

Marriage is a three ring circus engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

I have personally visited the factories, and witnessed the sufferings of the overworked children. but, my friends, you never heard of this. No, no, my speeches on the subject were all suppressed by the press.

What's crass is George Bush standing in the way of promising stem cell research that holds the hope of cures for millions of suffering Americans.

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

Faith can be defined as any man's hope that the human spirit is capable of understanding that anything actually matters in the larger universe and that understanding anything could be important outside of our own selfish whims and desire to survive....and somehow, because it is important, understanding can go on without us, waiting only to be rediscovered by the future, or at worst, pissed away, in spite of all our prayers, and work, and suffering.

The love of Justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering Injustice.

There's something to be said for organizations that get here often it builds a certain mystique. In our case, we thought we were getting over the hump once, but 20 years later, here we are still trying to get over that hump. We've had some suffering fans for 44 years.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.

I have a beautiful family and I'm in my favourite band. At the same time I don't recommend it. I never sleep and something is always suffering.

It's a very proud civilization. They went through the (Iran-Iraq) war and the revolution. They're certainly capable of suffering.

This is a short-term remedy, but we need it now. Ordinary New Yorkers are suffering.

We can use the conclusion of the north-south peace process as a springboard to end the suffering in Darfur.

(The restitution payments) can't undo the suffering that the victims went through, and unfortunately it also comes too late for many, ... Germany learned many things about itself and its past during the negotiation process, and openly discussed what had been suppressed all too willingly and successfully for a long time.

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

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Prior to this crisis, Asia was rigid, ... Now it's less centralized but human suffering was significant.

If you were a clerk who earned 30,000 a year and you had 20 years left, you'll get a lump sum payment of 30,000 a year for the next 20 years, plus the pain and suffering, plus the pension,

On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.

Nothing can undo the suffering this act of terrorism has caused. But we hope that this verdict will help reduce the anguish and uncertainty that the family members have endured since December 21, 1988, and that they are able to find some solace in the measure of justice achieved by this decision.

We want to nip it in the bud. The inaccuracy of someone hunting through a computer would lead to animals being wounded and suffering.

A lot of people would not be sympathetic to the fact that the union would seem to be suffering. A lot of people would take the position the union does not warrant sympathy.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering. When a wise man has realized this, he takes no pleasure, as a disciple of the Buddhas, even in the pleasures of heaven. Instead he takes pleasure in the elimination of craving.

Nature ever upbuilds one thing from other, suffering naught To come to birth but through some other's death

Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?

I haven't seen that report... But let me make it very clear. Secretary (Condoleezza) Rice has said, in consultation with the White House, that no offers of assistance will be refused. No offer that can help alleviate the suffering of the people of the affected area will be refused,

All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.

The magnitude and scope of Katrina was unprecedented and people across the Gulf Coast region have gone through tremendous suffering.

He who overcomes this fierce thirst, difficult to be conquered in this world, sufferings fall off from him, like water-drops from a lotus leaf.

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

You know, you are not born with a soul. You earn it with suffering, hard work and prayer. Which hopefully you did last night

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

There should be plenty of visuals to watch, including realistic depictions of the way Christ was tortured before his excruciating crucifixion. Caviezel, also a practicing Catholic, spent 15 days on the cross during shooting and was scourged so realistically that he dislocated a shoulder at one point. There's an immense amount of suffering on this, ... Fortunately, God is helping me.

My father was a tremendous extrovert, always managing to be the center of attention and the life of the party. Mom was just the opposite - quiet, suffering, and neurotic as Hell. Quite a combination, those two. Dad was a terrific ham and Mom was very introverted, and basically sad and self-conscious.

This is wonderful news for the many thousands of suffering patients who can benefit from umbilical cord blood stem cell treatments.