Suffering Quotes

Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables.

We suffered. We worried. We lost. We wept. But loved, and laughed, and cared, and helped.

The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind. They likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

The artist does not have to suffer to show suffering.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don’t believe as you do.

Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgetting.

Be good to everyone. You never know who might be suffering alone.