World Suffering Quotes

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

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

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.

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.