Suffering Quotes

As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

To live is to suffer, but to survive, well that's to find meaning in the suffering.

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.

Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

You're lucky I took me a vow of non-violence, or you'd be suffering some pain right now.

We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.

Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

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.

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

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

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