Suffering Quotes

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.

Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.

The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.

I'm attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.