Suffering quotes
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"I suffer from depression. Severe cases of it. Not one case of depression, not a severe case, but severe cases of depression. Music is my only outlet, it's therapeutic to me. It's a release. It's how I vent emotionally."
"Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them."
"A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing."
"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
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"When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer."
"We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials."
"Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love."
"It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering."
"We suffer with those who have disappeared, those who have had to flee their homes, and those who have been tortured."
"A businessman cannot force you to buy his product; if he makes a mistake, he suffers the consequences; if he fails, he takes the loss. If bureaucrat makes a mistake, you suffer the consequences; if he fails, he passes the loss on to you."
"All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire."
"We suffer a lot the few things we lack and we enjoy too little the many things we have."
"God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer."
"Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man."
"Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice."
"We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally."
"Instead of asking ourselves, 'How can I find security and happiness?' we could ask ourselves, 'Can I touch the center of my pain? Can I sit with suffering, both yours and mine, without trying to make it go away? Can I stay present to the ache of loss or disgrace-disapp ointment in all its many forms-and let it open me?' This is the trick."
"Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on."
"The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering."
"Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event."
"We hold the future in our hands, together, we must ensure that our grandchildren will not have to ask why we failed to do the right thing, and let them suffer the consequences."
"The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return."
"Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When out of habit you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins."
"In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945."
