World Suffering Quotes

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  • Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

  • Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

    Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.85, Harmony
  • I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1973). “Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1929-1932”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
  • Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

    Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.150, Routledge
  • If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452
  • I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

  • Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

  • 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.

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

    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

  • A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

    Fear   Happy Life   Men  
  • We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

    Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press
  • The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

    William Faulkner (1994). “Novels 1942-1954”
  • Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 31, 2014
  • 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.

    Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday
  • 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.

    Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker
  • Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

    Aeschylus (1997). “Aeschylus, 1: The Oresteia (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)”, p.12, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

    "AIDS and Its Metaphors" by Susan Sontagm, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ch. 4, (p. 125), 1989.
  • The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

  • 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.

    Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”
  • Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

    Change   Work   Struggle  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume
  • To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

  • In a world suffering from mental stress, yoga promises calm. In a distracted world, yoga creates focus, creates concentration. In a world of fear, yoga promises strength and courage. A healthy body and a disciplined mind are the foundations of a world free from fear. In crafting a new self through Yoga, we create a new world.

    Stress   Yoga   Self  
  • Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

  • 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.

    "Ben Okri salutes Jeremy Corbyn in poetry with A New Dream of Politics" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2015.
  • 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.

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

  • People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

    Joseph Emet, Thich Nhat Hanh (2015). “Mindfulness Meditation: For a Quieter Mind, Self-Awareness and Healthy Living”, p.125, Souvenir Press
  • The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

    Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

    Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”
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