Suffering Quotes - Page 111

Tonglen practice begins to dissolve the illusion that each of us is alone with this personal suffering that no one else can understand.

Love is, after all, a curse of suffering.

One of the few times I'm hit emotionally is when I listen to the tapes sadists make of torturing their victims. There the person is currently suffering, you can hear them suffer, and that calls out for an empathic response. But when they're dead, when they're no longer suffering, when it's over, it's hard to feel empathetic for the corpse.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!

When a lot of musicians change styles, their songwriting suffers because they want to be different.

No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life

To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

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.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

Maybe we cannot escape from the destiny of the human, but we have a choice: to suffer our destiny or to enjoy our destiny.

There is really no reason to suffer. The only reason you suffer is because you choose to suffer. If you look at your life you will find many excuses to suffer, but a good reason to suffer you will not find. The same is true for happiness. The only reason you are happy is because you choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice, and so is suffering.

The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to her suffering. The experience of either person can neither be denied nor adequately explained by a negative philosophy.

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H. L. Mencken - there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

we are beginning to understand that this instinct of sex which has been so great a cause of suffering and shame and has been treated as a subject fit only for furtive whispers or silly jokes, is in fact one of the greatest powers in human nature, and that its misuse is indeed 'the expense of spirit in a waste of shame.

Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

My warning is: Be careful Angela Merkel. If you don't see the suffering that has been imposed on the rest of the European people, then Germany will make itself hated.

Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

To bear witness to all the unnecessary suffering on the planet and make ourselves available to service - whatever that means for each of us. We go deep in our personal relationships in America, but we need to go deep in our public relationships as well.

Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.