Suffering Quotes - Page 110

I always say neediness is the cause of suffering. I'm not the only one who says it. It's something I adopted and I believe.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

There's no cure, except the retreat into love, For the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

When people feel their insignificance as individual persons, they also suffer an undermining of their sense of human responsibility.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

It is an experiment worth trying to be alone and to be quiet for a brief period every day. Under city conditions it may be difficult to carry out, but most of us could do it if we tried. At any rate, we should moderate the pace at which we are living. If we remain at high gear, at top pressure, we are bound to suffer from fatigue and strain.

Louers be war and tak gude heid about Quhome that ye lufe, for quhome ye suffer paine. I lat yow wit, thair is richt few thairout Quhome ye may traist to haue trew lufe agane.

We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can. Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.

Blindness to suffering is an inherent consequence of natural selection. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

What opium is instilled into all disaster? It shows formidable as we approach it, but there is at last no rough rasping friction,but the most slippery sliding surfaces. We fall soft on a thought.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

Understand suffering is a part of my karma, otherwise you will spoil your future karma also.

The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions.

When I believe, I am crazy. When I don’t believe, I suffer psychotic depression.

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.

the older I am, the more I refuse to treat my work as therapy and the more I think it's less honest to do that, less about acting. When I was younger, I sometimes used personal things in creating characters, to the point where I thought maybe it was a little bit dangerous - at least for me. But I don't feel that somebody can only be good in a character if they are really becoming that person or really suffering.