Quotes and Sayings About Suffering
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We must never forget that Christ did not suffer just during His three years of public ministry or the last few days of His life when He was crucified. No, He suffered throughout His life on earth. He who was without sin lived daily with the corruption and sinfulness of lost humanity.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Hitler suffered acutely from meteorism; perhaps he did not suffer so acutely as those around him, since meteorism is uncontrolled farting, a condition exacerbated by Hitler's strictly vegetarian diet.
-- A. N. Wilson -
Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.
-- A. S. Byatt -
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
-- Abba Eban -
posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
-- Abigail Adams -
...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
-- Abraham Verghese -
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
-- Abraham Verghese -
A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.
-- Ada Leverson -
I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
-- Adam Rapp -
I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.
-- Adam Savage -
Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.
-- Adela Popescu -
What we suffer from today is an excess of education.
-- Adolf Hitler -
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
-- Adoniram Judson -
The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.
-- Adrienne Monnier -
To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...
-- Adrienne Rich -
When we start to suffer, it tells us something very valuable. It means that we are not seeing the truth, and we are not relating from the truth. It's a beautiful pointer. It never fails.
-- Adyashanti -
When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?
-- Adyashanti -
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
-- Aeschylus -
Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.
-- Aeschylus -
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
-- Aeschylus -
Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
-- Agatha Christie -
If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.
-- Agatha Christie -
The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.
-- Agnes Repplier -
A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
-- Agnes Repplier -
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.
-- Agnes Sligh Turnbull
