Suffer Quotes

We look directly into our suffering rather than try to become happy. The happiness that arises from this approach is reliable.

I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilize” Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

As if it were their job to be nice to you, you put yourself at odds with what is, and suffering will surely follow.

A small group of people, they raise the price of oil and the whole world will suffer from this.

No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain.

If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.