Suffering Quotes - page 3

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped. (Christiaan Barnard)
On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they the Colonies raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome in the height of her glory is not to be compared,a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. View quote
Daniel Webster
If one doesn't learn from one's unhappy experiences,” he wisely observed, "what's the point of all that suffering? View quote
Lin Carter
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. View quote
Kofi Annan
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. View quote
George Eliot
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. View quote
André Malraux
O suffering, sad humanity O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete. View quote
Viktor Frankl
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. (Margaret Atwood)
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. View quote
Elie Wiesel
No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems. View quote
Anne Rice
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. View quote
Alexis Carrel
All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. View quote
Peter Singer
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering. View quote
G. I. Gurdjieff
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Knowledge by suffering entereth And Life is perfected by Death. View quote
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy. (Nhat Hanh)
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world. View quote
Arthur Helps
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. View quote
George Orwell
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. View quote
Bertrand Russell
One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul. View quote
D. H. Lawrence