Suffering Quotes

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

We must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

Stitched with the bemused threads of reality our brains suffer from practicality, a mystic story edited to be a mystery.

Wherever I go people recognize me, call my name, cheer for me. But there are names no one cares to remember, that no one cheers for: the 805 million people suffering from hunger in the world today.

If you are interested in preventing animal suffering, the first thing you should give up is eggs and milk, because the animals who produce those foods lead the most unhappy lives. You would do better to eat meat and stop eating eggs and dairy products.

The life is worth living. It’s not true, what the tired and reactionary say. We’re not on this earth to suffer and die. We’re here to fulfill a mission.

How does it feel to have everything and still suffer from the lack of it? I have all the love in me, but without yours it means nothing at all.

God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

Non-violence has suffered its biggest defeat in the hands of people who most want to talk about it.