Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anthony Daniels

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

Anthony de Mello

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

Anna Katharine Green

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Anne Rice

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

Aesop

Those who suffer most cry out the least.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aeschylus

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.

Aeschylus

It is through suffering that learning comes.

Jane Austen

We do not suffer by accident.

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Bodhidharma

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer.

Bodhidharma

To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.

Brigham Young

If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity.

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Bobby Fischer

Nothing eases suffering like human touch.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All our wanting comes from needs, thus we continiously suffer. The intellect teaches free will, free from suffering.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Antonio Guterres

Syria has become the great tragedy of this century - a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history,

Anwar Sadat

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Eckhart Tolle

Only when you've truly had enough suffering in your life, are you able to say ' I don't need it anymore'.

Eckhart Tolle

True freedom is living as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience in this moment. This inner alignment with the Now is the end of suffering.

Eckhart Tolle

Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.

Eckhart Tolle

Much suffering, much unhappiness arises when you take each thought that comes into your head for the truth.

Eckhart Tolle

When you are suffering, when you are unhappy, stay totally with what is Now. Unhappiness or problems cannot survive in the Now.

Eckhart Tolle

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Eckhart Tolle

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Elie Wiesel

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Elie Wiesel

I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

Elie Wiesel

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

Elie Wiesel

you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.