Suffering Quotes

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship – when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.

A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.

You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question – how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?

I commit to a lifetime of unlearning the poison of white supremacy that is still alive and continues to cause suffering.