Suffering Quotes - Page 55

And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

No one is indispensable to anyone else. You imagine you're necessary to him or that he will be very unhappy if you leave him, but I'm sure that if you do, within three months he will have fitted another face into your role and you'll see that no one is suffering because of your absence. You must feel free to do whatever feels best to you. Being someone's nurse is no way to live unless you're unable to do anything else. You have to say something on your own and you ought to be thinking, first and foremost, about that.

It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world goes on and people go on being stupidly cruel - in the old ways and all the time.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and others suffer.

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

If somebody says what they want or what they need it gives the person the chance to say yes or no, instead of suffering in silence or depravation or whatever it is.

If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.

One morning in February 1986, out of nowhere, I experienced a realization. In an instant, I discovered that when I believed my stressful thoughts, I suffered, but when I questioned them, I didn't suffer.

We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

We never will get a full situation of open transparency, but we should seek to bring forth the major concerns about injustice and suffering and dishonesty. This needs to come into the open or there will never be peace in the hearts of us violated.

Those who have courage to love should have courage to suffer.

There are women who do not like to cause suffering to many men at a time, and who prefer to concentrate on one man: These are the faithful women.

But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble.

Do not be a bodhisattva, do not be an arahant, do not be anything at all. If you are a bodhisattva, you will suffer, if you are an arahant, you will suffer, if you are anything at all, you will suffer.

posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.