Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

Gary Coleman

I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.

Pankaj Mishra

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

Ovid

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Nothing is sharper than suffering, nothing is sweeter than to have suffered.

Martin Amis

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

Pope Benedict XVI

It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing through it and finding meaning through union with Christ, who suffered with infinite love.

Pietro Aretino

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Pope Francis

Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability.

Pope Francis

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

Rachel Caine

I never meant it," he was saying. "Never meant it to happen. Can't stand it, seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something... What do I do? What can I do...?

Quintilian

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.

Philip Yancey

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Philip Yancey

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Philip Yancey

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

Pope Francis

The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.

Pope Francis

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

Pope Benedict XVI

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God.

Nathaniel Branden

Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

Therese of Lisieux

It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.

Therese of Lisieux

How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

Terry Tempest Williams

Dying doesn't cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.

Teju Cole

There's a reticence necessary when you consider the suffering of others. Into the space created by that reticence, you bring in those things that best help us confront ambiguity: music, painting, film, and so on.

Randall Robinson

We all have to die, and I preferred to have just one death. It seems to me that to suffer insult without response is to die many deaths.

Shania Twain

Suffering does not discriminate.

Shunryu Suzuki

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?" Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason.

Shinzo Abe

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Peter Tosh

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

Peter Kropotkin

Idlers do not make history: they suffer it!

Peter Kreeft

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

Peter Kreeft

Christ transforms the meaning and value of suffering from something to be feared or at best endured into something redemptive [and transformative].

Pema Chodron

Resisting what is happening is a major cause of suffering,