Suffering Quotes

Page 1 of 2 »

Louise Bogan: “I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!”

This quote | Related Quotes: Beauty Quotes, Hope Quotes, Joy Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Kevin D. Weeks: “Sometimes the sanest thing to do is just wallow in the misery for a while. Then climb out, grab a towel, dry off, and go about living.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Difficulties Quotes, Life Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Rumi: “Everyone is overridden by thoughts; that's why they have so much heartache and sorrow.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Grief/Sorrow Quotes, Rumi Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Tara Brach: “Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Attitude Quotes, Challenge Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Tara Brach Quotes

Elie Wiesel: “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.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Courage Quotes, Elie Wiesel Quotes, Indifference Quotes, Injustice Quotes, Power Quotes, Silence Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Simone Weil: “The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Attention Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Simone Weil Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Seneca: “Our fears are more numerous than our dangers, and we suffer more in our imagination than in reality.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Fear Quotes, Illusions Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Seneca Quotes, Suffering Quotes

William Ellery Channing: “Even in evil, that dark cloud which hangs over the creation, we discern rays of light and hope, and gradually come to see in suffering and temptation proofs and instruments of the sublimest purposes of wisdom and love.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Evil Quotes, Hope Quotes, Love Quotes, Suffering Quotes, William Ellery Channing Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

Thich Nhat Hanh: “You can practice deep listening in order to relieve the suffering in us, and in the other person. That kind of listening is described as compassionate listening. You listen only for the purpose of relieving suffering in the other person.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Listening Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Martin Luther King, Jr.: “Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Commitment Quotes, Justice Quotes, Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Judy Collins: “It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive. ”

This quote | Related Quotes: Judy Collins Quotes, Life Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Thor Heyerdahl: “Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. ”

This quote | Related Quotes: Hatred Quotes, Peace Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Thor Heyerdahl Quotes, War Quotes

Pema Chodron: “It isn't the things that happen to us in our lives that cause us to suffer, it's how we relate to the things that happen to us that causes us to suffer.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Attitude Quotes, Pema Chodron Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Sharon Salzberg: “By engaging in a delusive quest for happiness, we bring only suffering upon ourselves. In our frantic search for something to quench our thirst, we overlook the water all around us and drive ourselves into exile from our own lives. ”

This quote | Related Quotes: Happiness Quotes, Sharon Salzberg Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Francis Bacon: “No man is angry that feels not himself hurt.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Anger Quotes, Francis Bacon Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Henri-Frederic Amiel: “You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Henri-Frederic Amiel Quotes, Life Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Emma Thompson: “It's unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Emma Thompson Quotes, Humanity Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Anne Morrow Lindbergh: “I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Harriet Beecher Stowe: “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Challenge Quotes, Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Joanna Macy: “Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Compassion Quotes, Pain Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Sharon Salzberg: “Throughout our lives we long to love ourselves more deeply and to feel connected with others. Instead, we often contract, fear intimacy, and suffer a bewildering sense of separation. We crave love, and yet we are lonely. Our delusion of being separate from one another, of being apart from all that is around us, gives rise to all of this pain.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Connections Quotes, Love Quotes, Pain Quotes, Sharon Salzberg Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “The basic thing is that everyone wants happiness, no one wants suffering. And happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors. If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Attitude Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Quotes

Felix Adler: “We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Felix Adler Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama: “Human beings by nature want happiness and do not want suffering. With that feeling everyone tries to achieve happiness and tries to get rid of suffering, and everyone has the basic right to do this. In this way, all here are the same, whether rich or poor, educated or uneducated, Easterner or Westerner, believer or non-believer, and within believers whether Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and so on. Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Happiness Quotes, Life Quotes, Religion Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama Quotes

Benjamin Disraeli: “How fair is a garden amid the toils and passions of existence.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Benjamin Disraeli Quotes, Garden Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Rabindranath Tagore: “Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Authority Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Power Quotes, Rabindranath Tagore Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Helen Keller: “The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Helen Keller Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Corita Kent: “Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Corita Kent Quotes, Difficulties Quotes, Failure Quotes, Life Quotes, Now Quotes, Success Quotes, Suffering Quotes

Wallace Stegner: “Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Failure Quotes, Heart Quotes, Life Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

Samuel Johnson: “It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

This quote | Related Quotes: Samuel Johnson Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Trust Quotes

<< 1 2 >>
<< Success | Home Page | Tact >>
Quotes by Topic | Quotes by Author

This page last modified Fri May 11 10:20:52 2012 GMT

More Ads

Follow

Wisdom

Promote Your Page Too

Search This Site

Home
Newest Quotes
Quotes by Topic
Quotes by Author

_{Acceptance |

Achievement |

Action |

Advice |

Age |

Agnosticism/Atheism |

America |

Anger |

Anticipation |

Apathy |

Appreciation |

Argument |

Arrogance |

Art |

Attention |

Attitude |

Authority |

Autumn |

Awareness |

Beauty |

Beginning |

Belief |

Birth |

Blame |

Books |

Boredom |

Brevity |

Bushisms |

Busyness |

California |

Capitalism |

Cats |

Caution |

Ceremony |

Challenge |

Change/Growth |

Chaos |

Character |

Children |

Choice/Choosing |

Christianity |

Christmas |

Cities |

Civilization |

Commitment |

Common Sense |

Communication |

Community |

Compassion |

Compromise |

Computers |

Confidence |

Conflict |

Confusion |

Connections |

Conscience |

Conservatives |

Control |

Controversy |

Courage |

Courtesy |

Creation |

Creativity |

Creed/Credo |

Criticism |

Curiosity |

Cynicism |

Death |

Democracy |

Despair |

Destiny |

Difficulties |

Discovery |

Disobedience |

Dissent |

Diversity |

Dogs |

Doubt/Uncertainty |

Dreams |

Duty |

Earth |

Education |

Effectiveness |

Effort |

Elections |

Email Sigs |

Emotion |

Empathy |

Encouragement |

Ending |

Enemies |

Enthusiasm |

Envy |

Equality |

Ethics |

Evil |

Example |

Excellence |

Expectations |

Experience |

Extremism |

Facts |

Failure |

Faith |

Fame |

Family |

Fate |

Fathers |

Fear |

Feeling |

Feminism |

Forgiveness |

Freedom |

Friendship |

Frugality |

Fulfillment |

Future |

Garden |

Generosity |

Genius |

Giving |

Globalism |

Goals |

Good |

Government |

Grace |

Gratitude |

Greed |

Grief/Sorrow |

Guilt |

Habit |

Happiness |

Hatred |

Healing |

Health |

Heart |

Heaven |

Hell |

Hero |

History |

Holidays |

Honesty |

Hope |

Hospitality |

Housework |

Human Rights |

Humanism |

Humanity |

Humility |

Humor |

Hypocrisy |

Ideals |

Ideas |

Identity |

Ignorance |

Illusions |

Imagination |

Imitation |

Immortality |

Impermanence |

Inclusion |

Indifference |

Influence |

Injustice |

Insanity |

Inspiration |

Integrity/Individuality |

Intention |

Interdependence |

Intuition |

Joy |

Judgment |

Justice |

Kindness |

Knowledge |

Labor |

Language |

Law |

Lawyers |

Leadership |

Learning |

Liberals |

Life |

Limitations |

Listening |

Literature |

Logic |

Loneliness |

Love |

Luck |

Lying |

Majorities |

Management |

Marriage |

Material Possessions |

Mathematics |

Maturity |

Meaning |

Mediocrity |

Meditation |

Memory |

Men |

Mind |

Mindfulness |

Minorities |

Mistakes |

Moderation |

Money |

Mothers |

Music |

Mystery |

Myth |

Nature |

New Year |

News |

Niceness |

Nonviolence |

Now |

Observation |

Opinion |

Opportunity |

Optimism |

Order |

Organize |

Patience |

Patriotism |

Peace |

Perception |

Perfection |

Persistence |

Perspective |

Pessimism |

Philosophy |

Plans |

Poetry |

Politics |

Popularity |

Poverty |

Power |

Praise |

Prejudice |

Presence |

Problem Solving |

Procrastination |

Progress |

Public Schools |

Purpose |

Questions |

Quotations |

Racism |

Radicals |

Readiness |

Reality |

Reason |

Rebellion |

Reform |

Regret |

Relationships |

Religion |

Religious Freedom |

Reputation |

Respect |

Responsibility |

Reverence |

Reverence for Life |

Revolution |

Risk |

Roles |

Sacred |

Sacrifice |

Salvation |

Sanity |

Science |

Security |

Self-Respect |

Self-care |

Service |

Sharing |

Silence |

Simplicity |

Solidarity |

Solitude |

Spelling |

Spirituality |

Spring |

Status Quo |

Strength |

Stupidity |

Success |

Suffering |

Tact |

Talent |

Teamwork |

Texas |

Thanksgiving |

Thinking |

Time |

Tolerance |

Travel |

Trees |

Trust |

Truth |

Understanding |

Unitarian Universalism |

Unity |

Values |

Violence |

Virtue |

Vision |

War |

Washington |

Weakness |

Wealth |

Will |

Winning |

Winter |

Wisdom |

Women |

Wonder |

Work |

Worry |

Worship |

Worth |

Writing/Writers |

Youth |

Newest Quotes |
Quotes by Topic |
Quotes by Author}

Credits

Some parts of this site powered by Movable Type Pro.

Subscribe to this blog's feed