Suffering Quotes (287 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Robert Green Ingersoll
„Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.“
Picture of quotation author Dalai Lama
„Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.“
― Dalai Lama ―
Picture of quotation author Khaled Hosseini
„Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.“
― Khaled Hosseini ―
Picture of quotation author Sam Shepard
„My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.“
― Sam Shepard ―
Picture of quotation author Diane von Furstenberg
„There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!“
Picture of quotation author Mr. T
„You'll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I'm just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain't ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man's jaw with his fist.“
― Mr. T ―
Picture of quotation author Jim Caviezel
„Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.“
― Jim Caviezel ―
Picture of quotation author Michael McCaul
„Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.“
― Michael McCaul ―
Picture of quotation author Aleksander Kwasniewski
„We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.“
Picture of quotation author Samuel Smiles
„The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.“
― Samuel Smiles ―
Picture of quotation author Daniel D. Palmer
„The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.“
Picture of quotation author Mohsin Hamid
„Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven't pushed yourself hard enough.“
― Mohsin Hamid ―
Picture of quotation author Julie Christie
„Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.“
― Julie Christie ―
Picture of quotation author George Sand
„Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?“
― George Sand ―
Picture of quotation author Jim Ramstad
„Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.“
― Jim Ramstad ―
Picture of quotation author Maria Bamford
„I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you're cold, or that you're suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.“
― Maria Bamford ―
Picture of quotation author Frank R. Wolf
„When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.“
― Frank R. Wolf ―
Picture of quotation author Felicia Hemans
„Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.“
― Felicia Hemans ―
Picture of quotation author Ziggy Marley
„I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.“
― Ziggy Marley ―
Picture of quotation author Susan Rice
„We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.“
― Susan Rice ―

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