suffering quotes

Suffering quotes - The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”

Suffering quotes - We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.

“We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.”

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

Suffering quotes - The reward of suffering is experience.

“The reward of suffering is experience.”

“We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.”

“Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.”

“Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.”

“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.”

“I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself, and every time I see it, I say to myself, hate is too great a burden to bear. Somehow we must be able to stand up against our most bitter opponents and say: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. Do to us what you will and we will still love you.... But be assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves; we will appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory.”

“Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.”

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.”

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.”

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”

“Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?”

“ Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.”

“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”

“The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.”

“Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.”

“We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ”

“It is by suffering that human beings become angels.”

“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.”

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

“On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.”

“Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock. ”

“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”

“All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

“I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.”

“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.”