Suffering Quotes - Page 141

We suffer by our proximity. [Who get a blow intended for another.]

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

The mind grows sicker than the body in contemplation of it's suffering.

The joy of a strong nature is as cloudless as its suffering is desolate.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

Many of us suffer from temptations from which we have no business to suffer.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

Good people do not let others suffer needlessly.

Anyone can relate to suffering in this world.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

...those who love suffer when who they love suffers.

We live in this world, not another one that we'd prefer, and sometimes it's necessary to follow painful paths if we hope to provide at least a little help for suffering people.

As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say 'the Americans did that to him'. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too.

A lot of people are suffering in America.

In America, the 1 percent and the 10 percent are doing just fine, but the people who are bearing the brunt of this economy are the ones who suffer.

We cannot deny that people are suffering, and they are making that suffering known at the ballot box.

Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?

Maybe if one person suffers anywhere in the world, we all have blood in our hands.

Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you.

Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other.