Suffering Quotes - Page 114

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.

You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

The establishment of the world community will surely exact a price – and who can tell what that price may be? – in toil, suffering and blood.

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn't become a defining deal.

Suffering is not increased by numbers; one body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

Buddha nature is not something that we possess, nor is it something we can be. It is the nature of things, just as they are. To realize our buddha nature, to live in accord with this awakening, is the truth that alleviates suffering in the world.

When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so, brahmins, is human life like a line drawn on water. It is short, limited, and brief; it is full of suffering. One should do good and live a pure life; for none who is born can escape death.

Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; seperation from what is pleasing is suffering... in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.

Suffering, if it does not diminish love, will transport us to the furthest shore.

There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

...eating animals involves an intentional decision to participate in the suffering and death of nonhumans where there is no plausible moral justification.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.

It is true that 'I seem to see a table' does not entail 'I see a table'; but 'I seem to feel a pain' does entail 'I feel a pain'. So scepticism loses its force - cannot open up its characteristic gap - with regard to that which ultimately most concerns us, pleasure and pain.

I want to suffer so that I may love.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Thus the will to power strives towards oppositions, towards displeasure. There is a will to suffering at the foundation of all organic life (contrary to "happiness" as "goal").

Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.