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" Quotes and Sayings About suffering

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Joy Mystery Anywhere Anytime
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Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair

Christianity Experience Pain Deep
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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Could Disarm Each Enemies
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Achieved Ambition Cannot Character
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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Also Although Full Overcoming
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What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

Literature
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.

Abandon Academy Alleviate Classes
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We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.
Big Big Responsibility Bring Doctors
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
Artist Experience I Think Important
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
Amount Balance Fair Fair Amount
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On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

America Any Bring Confront
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Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.

Christ Compare God Grace
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The reward of suffering is experience.
Experience Reward Suffering Suffer
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Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

Learning Much Pillars Seeing
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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
Suffering Wisdom Wish Wise
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If given an opportunity and you choose to take it, especially in times where opportunities are heavily diminished, give it your best, be accountable for your choices, and be grateful. With so many suffering, complaining thru success may not be the best choice.

Given Opportunity Best Choice
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I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

Against Drinking Eating Horrible
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
Predestination Suffering Women
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It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

Agony Bear Biological Blood
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

Condemnation Fear God Let Us
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Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering.

Give Things Constant Wondering
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“Feelings, by themselves, do not create problems. It is rather the tendency to interpret and analyze them. When, out of habit, you believe those interpretations, it is there that the suffering begins.”

Feeling Themselves Create Problems
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How can you ignore the suffering of others? If you can’t feed a thousand people, feed a hundred people. If u can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.

Suffering Feed Just one Hundred people
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I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.

Sometimes Enjoy Prefer
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“According to the doctors, I'm only suffering from a light form of premature baldness.”

According Doctors Suffering Light
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Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.

Away Buddhism Cause Confront
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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Healed Suffering Experiencing Full
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In my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them

Cowardice Man Grown Men
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The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it

Physician Treat Disease Patient
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Chance Hope Never People
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Help the weak, the vulnerable, the needy, those that are suffering and those that are in need and never forget that sooner or later this plague shall pass & we shall be free again.

Help Weak Vulnerable Suffering
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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Familiar Fear Go Hard
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You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Bring Depend Happiness Helps
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Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.

Encounter Inner Listening Most
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

About Achieving Bad Caused
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In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.
Close Cruel Hearts Order
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Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking - the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn't pretty.

Barely Controlled Diseases How
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True knowledge comes only through suffering

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

Memory Suffering Shadowing Young soul
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My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.

Carry Cases Doctor Duty
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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Function Higher HigherLevel Level
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First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?

Agony Any Crime Doing
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.

Built Country Determine Die
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Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Extend Hand Suffered Suffering
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.

Age Am Children Committee
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We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.

Belong To ourselves Purchased Price
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Suffering Reduce Certainly Elderly
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I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.

Lying Men Suffering Speak
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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Both Did Face Gave
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Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we're here: We're here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.

Believe Grow Here Higher
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