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Suffering  Quotes
It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.

—Bryant McGill

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We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it’s not close to our home.

—Bill Maher

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AmericaCharitySuffering
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Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain

—Aeschylus

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SufferingTruth
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There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

—Charles Robert Maturin

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He supposed he was one of those unfortunates born with a great capacity for suffering…. He opened his eyes a moment and they were dark with fear, for only one race was run as yet...

—Elizabeth Goudge

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Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men and hateful deeds, a person has to think and sorrow so much! Back there it is so difficult...

—Hermann Hesse

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The lower a human being descends, the more asleep and inhumane he becomes. Those beings that lack Compassion, Love, and Peace are the true targets of the ego system…

—Jacqueline Ripstein

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This was too much for him to handle. It was like watching memories of his life play out from a different camera angle, sometimes with new scenes added. He was living DVD extras.

—Dennis Sharpe

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Your love is most generous.You can love, perhaps for a yeara month, a day, even for an hour but after your soul suffers from boredom requiring an audience a grand standing ovation for all to...

—Evelyn Leilou

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Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

—Dave Eggers

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But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The consciousness of misery is too serious a disease to figure in...

—Emil Cioran

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We must recognize that the suffering of one person or one nation is the suffering of humanity.

—Dalai Lama

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Truly it is the hardest of all trials to see souls so dear in pains we cannot remedy.

—Elizabeth Ann

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How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him suffering, one who has something, a person bound in mind with people.

—Gautama Buddha

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Sell canoes to those who are enduring a drought, and sell sunscreen to those suffering from flooding. But give love freely to all, because samples encourage sales.

—Jarod Kintz

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The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign....

—John Piper

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When we all become more compassionate, there will probably be less suffering in the world.

—Kishore Bansal

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Those who have suffered in the hands of others,know what it is to be free.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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Why do we come to the world, only to suffer and depart? This is a unsolved misery.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

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The world’s a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you’ve seen worse things, haven’t you? Please tell me the world has always been like this.

—Juan Gabriel

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His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle, fastened itself irremovably first to that moment, five o’clock in the afternoon, then to another, then to...

—Marcel Proust

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Twas such a useless thing. And so unnecessary. Many had suffered for the actions of a few. Wasn’t that always the way of things? The collective suffered for the actions of an inept, ineffectual leader.

—Maya Banks

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Ah Buddha, you boastful charlatan. You may have learned nothing after 6 years of suffering, but then what of 7 years? What of 17? What might you have learned from a lifetime of pain? […]...

—Mark X.

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Bean was tired of talking about this. She looked so happy when she talked about God, but he hadn’t figured it out yet, what God even was. It was like, she wanted to give God...

—Orson Scott

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Suffering shapes the life force, sometimes into anger, sometimes into blame and self-pity. Eventually it may show us the wisdom of embracing and loving life.

—Rachel Naomi

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AngerLifeLove
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When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.

—Noah Cicero

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Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn’t mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

—Richelle E.

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These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another;...

—Victor Hugo

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Because all my life I’ve learned to suffer in silence – Athena

—Paulo Coelho

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I venture to say Kierkegaard meant that truth has lost its force with us and horrible pain and evil must teach it to us again, the eternal punishments of Hell will have to regain their...

—Saul Bellow

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The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

—Thiruvalluvar

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Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth. Of course it’s right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the...

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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To put it another way, pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can’t he rouse us more gently, with violins or laughter? Because the dream from which...

—William Nicholson

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A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, “Why is there so much suffering?”Suzuki Roshi replied, “No reason.

—Shunryu Suzuki

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The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for oneness with Jesus. The search for Jesus is bigger, deeper and agonizing.

—W. Scott

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Rather than idolizing perfection, we must choose to cherish what is real. To truly live is to love deeply, to get messy, to sometimes get hurt, and to stumble and fall. It is worth it....

—Ann Brasco

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Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering...

—Bell Hooks

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HurtLovePain
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Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.

—Bryant McGill

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He remembered a version of himself untrammeled by expectation, unimpeded by Ego. He had suffered in the many years since then, seeking to return to that original self, if, in fact, it ever existed. And...

—Ashim Shanker

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Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us...

—Alan Heathcock

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At some level, it is even tempting to think that since strict materialism is among the most incoherent of superstitions – one that has never really asked the question of the being of things in...

—David Bentley Hart

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Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship. The disciple is not above his master. Following Christ means passio passiva, suffering because we have to suffer.

—Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The light is supposed to enter through your breaks, wounds, and cracks.

—Darnell Lamont

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EnlightenmentLightPain
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Fact One: Races are won or lost in key moments. Fact Two: Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering.

—Chris McCormack

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MaccaRacingSuffering
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I always wondered what it must be like to lose a twin—if somehow Mary felt it like it was happening to her. If she felt physical pain.

—Francesca Lia

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Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether by reason of its genuine humility, or indifference, or sheer helplessness.

—Honoré de

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If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a...

—Ignatius of

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HopeSaintsSuffering
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The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.

—Edith Hamilton

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RiskSuffering
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The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic. ‘Toxic’ comes from toxicon, Pendell tells us, with a root...

—Gary Snyder

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