Best Suffering Quotes

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

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

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They’re kinder.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

I have been bent and broken, but I hope, into a better shape.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth.

What is hell?…The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

Silence is an empty space, space is the home of the awakened mind.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

As many suffer from too much as too little.

You who feel no pain at the suffering of others It is not fitting for you to be called human.

The ego says, I shouldn’t have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There’s a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving.

The ‘Third World’ is a term I don’t like very much, because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.

If we develop concern for other people’s welfare, share other people’s suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept – before they will forgive.