Suffering Quotes

‘To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘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.’ – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘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

‘Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.’ – Bob Marley

‘Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He’s sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.’ – Charles Stanley

‘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.’ – Martin Luther King, Jr.

‘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

‘The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.’ – Karl Marx

‘Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.’ – Woody Allen

‘I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.’ – Anne Frank

‘One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.’ – Madame de Stael

‘Don’t Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.’ – Don Miguel Ruiz

‘If I could talk to my younger self, I would just say that the path to great things is filled with a lot of stumbles, suffering, and challenges along the way. But if you have the right attitude and know that hard times will pass – and you get up each time – you will reach your destination.’ – Jonny Kim

‘A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.’ – Michel de Montaigne

‘Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.’ – Alexis Carrel

‘Wisdom comes alone through suffering.’ – Aeschylus

‘Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘I hope not to define myself by suffering.’ – Frank Ocean

‘God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.’ – Saint Augustine

‘The reward of suffering is experience.’ – Harry S Truman

‘We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.’ – Marcel Proust

‘Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.’ – Kurt Cobain

‘If there is a 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.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.’ – Aristotle

‘Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.’ – Buddha

‘One of the biggest curses from which India is suffering – I do not say that other countries are free from it, but I think our condition is much worse – is bribery and corruption. That really is a poison.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.’ – Anais Nin

‘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

‘Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?’ – Marie Antoinette

‘Humans have an amazing capacity to believe in contradictory things. For example, to believe in an omnipotent and benevolent God but somehow excuse Him from all the suffering in the world. Or our ability to believe from the standpoint of law that humans are equal and have free will and from biology that humans are just organic machines.’ – Yuval Noah Harari

‘We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.’ – Willie Nelson

‘As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.’ – Jose Rizal

‘A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.’ – George Gurdjieff

‘Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.’ – Princess Diana

‘Suffering isn’t ennobling, recovery is.’ – Christiaan Barnard

‘Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His righteousness. Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ is sufficient for salvation. There must be atonement made for sin according to the righteousness of God. The person to make this atonement must be God and man.’ – John Wycliffe

‘Unless and until our society recognizes cyber bullying for what it is, the suffering of thousands of silent victims will continue.’ – Anna Maria Chavez

‘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.’ – Bertrand Russell

‘All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.’ – Jon Kabat-Zinn

‘Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That’s a gift that you have received from God. Don’t waste it.’ – Laura Ingalls Wilder

‘The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.’ – Albert Camus

‘We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.’ – Winston Churchill

‘When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.’ – Chinua Achebe

‘I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.’ – John Coltrane

‘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

‘God wants us to know that life is a series of beginnings, not endings. Just as graduations are not terminations, but commencements. Creation is an ongoing process, and when we create a perfect world where love and compassion are shared by all, suffering will cease.’ – Bernie Siegel

‘The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.’ – Nick Harkaway

‘We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love.’ – Sigmund Freud

‘If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.’ – Paul Farmer

‘When we believe in our thoughts, when we tell ourselves a story, we suffer. ‘My husband doesn’t respect me.’ ‘I should be thinner.’ Those are stories. When there’s no story, there’s no suffering.’ – Byron Katie

‘It’s at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.’ – Emil Zatopek

‘Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘Happiness is not a reward – it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment – it is a result.’ – Robert Green Ingersoll

‘An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.’ – Clara Barton

‘Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.’ – Alphonse de Lamartine

‘Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.’ – Carl Jung

‘Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘I’m great at a deathbed. I’ve never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I’ve given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.’ – Patch Adams

‘Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.’ – Max Lucado

‘I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.’ – Rafael Nadal

‘Doesn’t the world see the suffering of millions of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn’t the world see this injustice?’ – Ismail Haniyeh

‘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

‘If you think there is a way to accomplish redemption without suffering and death, you’re offering what the devil offered.’ – John MacArthur

‘True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.’ – Albert Pike

‘It isn’t easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful… it’s difficult. It’s something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.’ – Rainer Werner Fassbinder

‘Early marriage is most prevalent in communities suffering deep, chronic poverty.’ – Helene D. Gayle

‘Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.’ – David D. Burns

‘I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.’ – T. B. Joshua

‘Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.’ – David Goggins

‘We apologise for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country.’ – Kevin Rudd

‘We all want a world without war, without conflict, without human suffering.’ – Jeremy Gilley

‘It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.’ – Bela Lugosi

‘But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.’ – Lydia M. Child

‘Football is not about suffering. It’s about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.’ – Johan Cruyff

‘This life is not man’s own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine ‘plot.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘At the heart of all romanticism is suffering.’ – Brin-Jonathan Butler

‘In many parts of the world, especially Pakistan and Afghanistan, terrorism, war and conflict stop children to go to their schools. We are really tired of these wars. Women and children are suffering.’ – Malala Yousafzai

‘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.’ – D. H. Lawrence

‘The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘Acceptance of one’s life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.’ – Paul Tournier

‘Drugs are not the way to the light. They won’t lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.’ – Layne Staley

‘Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.’ – Jordan Peterson

‘The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.’ – Mahmoud Abbas

‘If you don’t have liberty and self-determination, you’ve got nothing, that’s what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you’re going to die when you’re suffering.’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.’ – Bill Gates

‘Men weren’t really the enemy – they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.’ – Betty Friedan

‘I think it’s the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you’re a person that matters.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is unstoppable.’ – Kirk Cameron

‘A man will give up almost anything except his suffering.’ – Chogyam Trungpa

‘How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.’ – Charles Baudelaire

‘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.’ – George Orwell

‘Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.’ – Marcus Garvey

‘A filmmaker doesn’t have to suffer to show suffering. You just have to understand it. You don’t have to die to shoot a death scene.’ – David Lynch

‘People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

‘The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.’ – Rita Mae Brown

‘No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.’ – Sebastian Junger

‘The woman is a gentle, loving bond who encourages, consoles, builds, reconciles, and makes all things new and vibrant. The woman is strength in time of suffering, courageous in failure, intuitive in time of danger. A woman is ingenuous when all fails, resourceful in times of want, and a true helpmate for man.’ – Mother Angelica

‘Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.’ – Sophocles

‘I think health care is more about love than about most other things. If there isn’t at the core of this two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, you can’t get to the right answer here.’ – Donald Berwick

‘If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

‘Embryonic stem cell research has the potential to alleviate so much suffering. Surely, by working together we can harness its life-giving potential.’ – Nancy Reagan

‘No one can doubt that the sufferings of the sober, virtuous woman, in legal subjection to the mastership of a drunken, immoral husband and father over herself and children, not only from physical abuse, but from spiritual shame and humiliation, must be such as the man himself can not possibly comprehend.’ – Susan B. Anthony

‘I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It’s not getting easier; if anything, it’s always right on the edge of my skin.’ – Erwin McManus

‘Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.’ – Russell Simmons

‘Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us – becoming stronger and stronger – and we will complete the message.’ – David Ben-Gurion

‘Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘You don’t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.’ – John Ciardi

‘Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.’ – Jim Caviezel

‘It is by suffering that human beings become angels.’ – Victor Hugo

‘It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.’ – Judy Collins

‘Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.’ – Henny Youngman

‘It’s not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.’ – Robert Capa

‘We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.’ – John Lubbock

‘Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.’ – Ezra Taft Benson

‘Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.’ – Patti Smith

‘To write is to give meaning to suffering.’ – Alejandra Pizarnik

‘People talk about physical fitness, but mental health is equally important. I see people suffering, and their families feel a sense of shame about it, which doesn’t help. One needs support and understanding. I am now working on an initiative to create awareness about anxiety and depression and help people.’ – Deepika Padukone

‘Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?’ – George Sand

‘I think suffering has always been an incentive for my creativity.’ – Sanjay Leela Bhansali

‘As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.’ – William Wordsworth

‘The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.’ – Daniel Ortega

‘In the world of the present, in our time, we feel that suffering, anguish, the torments of body and soul, are greater than ever before in the history of mankind.’ – Eyvind Johnson

‘Our redemption through the suffering of Christ is that deeper love within us which not only frees us from slavery to sin, but also secures for us the true liberty of the children of God, in order that we might do all things out of love rather than out of fear – love for him that has shown us such grace that no greater can be found.’ – Peter Abelard

‘Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why we’re here: We’re here to suffer. I believe in a higher power that compassionately allows suffering for us as a race, to grow and mature.’ – Rainn Wilson

‘If nothing else, there’s comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘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.’ – Jerome K. Jerome

‘In Silicon Valley, I point out that many of the more successful entrepreneurs seem to be suffering from a mild form of Asperger’s where it’s like you’re missing the imitation, socialization gene.’ – Peter Thiel

‘Our health care system squanders money because it is designed to react to emergencies. Homeless shelters, hospital emergency rooms, jails, prisons – these are expensive and ineffective ways to intervene and there are people who clearly profit from this cycle of continued suffering.’ – Pete Earley

‘I experience for the American officers and soldiers that friendship which arises from having shared with them for a length of time dangers, sufferings, and both good and evil fortune.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘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.’ – John Ruskin

‘The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret. Every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities that have become accustomed to suffering with clenched teeth.’ – Eduardo Galeano

‘For years I bore the crippling weight of anger, bitterness and resentment toward those who caused my suffering. Yet as I look back over a spiritual journey that has spanned more than three decades, I realize the same bombs that caused so much pain and suffering also brought me to a place of great healing. Those bombs led me to Jesus Christ.’ – Phan Thi Kim Phuc

‘Decades of futile effort have not dampened my bold aspirations to save the nation. Born in a late age, I have not been able to witness the golden rule of Yao and Shun and other sage emperors of ancient China. Instead, my heart grieves at the suffering of the Chinese people under the cruel exploitation of the Tartar Slaves.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.’ – George B. McClellan

‘My family made it through Hurricane Sandy. We have water, power, and a roof, but the survivor’s guilt makes me want to hide. Sneak away from the brilliance of life. It shouts at me: ‘Don’t enjoy anything too much; people are suffering.’ I feel childlike somehow.’ – Alysia Reiner

‘Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.’ – George Wallace

‘There’s a reason poets often say, ‘Poetry saved my life,’ for often the blank page is the only one listening to the soul’s suffering, the only one registering the story completely, the only one receiving all softly and without condemnation.’ – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

‘With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.’ – Jerry Costello

‘God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.’ – John Calvin

‘The amount of suffering I’ve seen is beyond belief. The amount of inequality is beyond belief.’ – David Hogg

‘Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.’ – Janet Fitch

‘Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.’ – Helen Keller

‘For too long, this country has been suffering a great moral and oral decay in spirit and incisors.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering.’ – Carl von Clausewitz

‘When one takes action for others, one’s own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to benefit myself. And this is one of the true secrets of my being a poor man to this day.’ – Davy Crockett

‘We have a democracy of elections to elections. After winning an election, the parties become brazen and arrogant. They would do all wrong things and if you question them, they would say – why don’t you change the government next time? But that would be five years later. What do I do right now? I am suffering right now.’ – Arvind Kejriwal

‘Fur is not luxury: it is an industry of death and suffering.’ – Brigitte Bardot

‘We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘A tremendous amount of needless pain and suffering can be eliminated by ensuring that health insurance is universally available.’ – Daniel Akaka

‘Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘You need talent as a rider and I think I had that in my genes. But I think I also had a talent for suffering, which I thought was important, but also determination.’ – Eddy Merckx

‘Reggae music don’t really focus on one thing, you know. If reggae music is speaking about the struggle of people, and the suffering, it don’t mean black people. It mean people in general.’ – Burning Spear

‘It’s through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.’ – Alexander McCall Smith

‘There is no love without suffering.’ – Arielle Dombasle

‘When we’re suffering, we kind of have this notion that we kind of should stop living and we should just focus on his how to ‘get over it,’ how to just ‘get to the other side.” – Claire Wineland

‘Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.’ – Edward Bach

‘It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain-high.’ – Kathe Kollwitz

‘Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I’m not sure we do.’ – Sam Harris

‘Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘It’s amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.’ – Penn Jillette

‘People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people’s powers of resistance.’ – Otto Dix

‘Love is suffering. One side always loves more.’ – Catherine Deneuve

‘Suffering turns men towards their creator.’ – Ramana Maharshi

‘There is a lot of suffering and injustice in the world, and there is also a great deal of hope. When you step forward and start speaking about what you see and what you want to change, you can begin living in that hope instead of despair.’ – Sonita Alizadeh

‘Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.’ – Matthieu Ricard

‘When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people’s sufferings too. That’s the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.’ – Yoko Ono

‘The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn’t share ’em. I think that you can’t live without suffering some.’ – Ron Howard

‘Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.’ – Adam Schiff

‘Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? – Andrew Greeley’ – Andrew Greeley

‘The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.’ – Daniel D. Palmer

‘There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.’ – Dennis Prager

‘I would like to see an end to war, poverty, and unnecessary human suffering. But I can’t see it in a monetary-based system where the richest nations control most of the world’s resources.’ – Jacque Fresco

‘Girls’ inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.’ – Elizabeth Berkley

‘I didn’t want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn’t want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs.’ – Lionel Blue

‘Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.’ – Cornel West

‘It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible – the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.’ – Alice Morse Earle

‘Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.’ – Mary Lyon

‘No one will ever know how many novels, poems, analyses, confessions, sufferings and joys have been piled up on this continent called Love, without it ever having turned out to be totally investigated.’ – Heinrich Boll

‘Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.’ – Paul Harvey

‘I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.’ – Ruta Sepetys

‘One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.’ – Jane Austen

‘Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.’ – Bodhidharma

‘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

‘We’re always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.’ – Krzysztof Kieslowski

‘I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.’ – Lucy Stone

‘We know from our own history, and that of our neighbors, that where conflicts and disagreements are not resolved peacefully, the suffering and bloodshed that follows and the collapse of economic and social development leads to tragic consequences.’ – Mwai Kibaki

‘Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life – had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad’s farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.’ – Sam Shepard

‘The good news of suffering is that it brings us to the end of ourselves – a purpose it has certainly served in my life. It brings us to the place of honesty, which is the place of desperation, which is the place of faith, which is the place of freedom.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘There’s a lot of people out here faking a smile on their face like they got it together but inside actually suffering from some sort of traumatic experience, a loss, depressed, fearful, envious or whatever the case may be, but I can feel it.’ – Summer Walker

‘It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.’ – Bill Pascrell

‘The ‘Third World’ is a term I don’t like very much because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.’ – Lactantius

‘The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.’ – Alex Grey

‘Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.’ – Federica Mogherini

‘Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.’ – Mahmoud Abbas

‘I am not saying that factory farming is the same as the Holocaust or the slave trade, but it’s clear that there is an immense amount of suffering in it, and just as we think that the Nazis were wrong to ignore the suffering of their victims, so we are wrong to ignore the sufferings of our victims.’ – Peter Singer

‘When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician’s role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient’s wishes.’ – Marcia Angell

‘All of us suffer some injuries from experiences that seem to have no rhyme or reason. We cannot understand or explain them. We may never know why some things happen in this life. The reason for some of our suffering is known only to the Lord.’ – James E. Faust

‘Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.’ – Brennan Manning

‘Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.’ – Plato

‘Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.’ – Lee Strobel

‘Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering.’ – Robert Mugabe

‘Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.’ – Rob Bell

‘A lot of compelling stories in the world aren’t being told, and the fact that people don’t know about them compounds the suffering.’ – Anderson Cooper

‘We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Literature… is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.’ – Thomas Mann

‘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.’ – Paulo Coelho

‘In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.’ – Queen Elizabeth II

‘Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.’ – Sam Harris

‘To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: ‘May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.’ Repeat this until you actually mean it.’ – Martha Beck

‘I have heard of Texas pioneers living without bread or anything made from the cereals for months without suffering, using the breast-meat of wild turkeys for bread. Of this kind, they had plenty in the good old days when life, though considered less safe, was fussed over the less.’ – John Muir

‘Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers’ suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children.’ – Gro Harlem Brundtland

‘We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.’ – Shigeru Yoshida

‘Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.’ – Blase J. Cupich

‘Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‘I know.’ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.’ – Norman Mailer

‘Though suffering and trauma are not identical, the Buddha’s insight into the nature of suffering can provide a powerful mirror for examining the effects of trauma in your life. The Buddha’s basic teaching offers guidance for healing our trauma and recovering a sense of wholeness.’ – Peter A. Levine

‘Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.’ – Felicia Hemans

‘Some public officials are blessed – you can’t acquire this, but you are blessed with the gift of empathy, being able to empathize with those who are suffering.’ – Bob Casey, Jr.

‘Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God’s suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.’ – Henri Nouwen

‘Be mobile at all times, even if it causes you suffering or feelings of loneliness. Unless you’re willing to do that, you’re never going to get the bigger rewards.’ – Oleg Cassini

‘If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.’ – Ralph Merkle

‘In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter – which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking ‘enlightenment’ meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.’ – Nancy Pearcey

‘Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘The first of the four noble truths of Buddhism, that there is suffering in life, was enormously important to me. No one had ever said it out loud. That had been my experience, of course, but no one had ever talked about it. I didn’t know what to do with all the fear and emotions within, and here was the Buddha saying this truth right out loud.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God.’ – Nick Vujicic

‘We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul’s medicine and food!’ – Dorothea Dix

‘The role of a clown and a physician are the same – it’s to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.’ – Patch Adams

‘Happiness and suffering are feelings – parts of our mind – and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we really want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must improve our understanding of the mind.’ – Kelsang Gyatso

‘I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.’ – Ernest Holmes

‘What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they’re sort of larger than life and I think I’m still suffering from that reaction.’ – Guy Ritchie

‘A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.’ – Carl Jung

‘There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man – that is, the more divine – the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘When you see a person you love being affected, suffering, people saying things that aren’t true… then it hurts you.’ – Neymar

‘We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.’ – Jose Marti

”Suffering should not make us bitter people,’ my mother once said, ‘it should make us better comforters.’ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.’ – Billy Graham

‘Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I’m kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.’ – Jim Diamond

‘Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.’ – Arthur Schopenhauer

‘Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.’ – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

‘Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.’ – James Fenimore Cooper

‘In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn’t get squeamish about it.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada

‘My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.’ – Alexandra Stoddard

‘The struggle through the grief was a huge growing process for me. There were gifts that came from it. I learned a lot about myself. I got into a mode very much like my father’s own mode of seeking – seeking solutions, seeking teachers, seeking information – to try to alleviate my own suffering.’ – Shannon Lee

‘If compassion is so good for us, why don’t we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they’re supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?’ – Joan Halifax

‘It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Women have a predestination to suffering.’ – Bela Lugosi

‘Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won’t ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.’ – Max Carver

‘The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.’ – Leo Tolstoy

‘Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.’ – Franz Kafka

‘Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.’ – Matthieu Ricard

‘In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.’ – Alberto Fujimori

‘Pierre was an extraordinary teacher – he really was one of the best, and he raised the boys so, so well: to have a global view, to have compassion, to be humanitarians, to really be concerned about alleviating suffering.’ – Margaret Trudeau

‘Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘When you’re in hell, you forget how great you really are because you’re suffering and you forget the great things you’ve done.’ – David Goggins

‘When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.’ – Ben Okri

‘When we’re dealing with the people in our family – no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs – we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.’ – Anne Lamott

‘The hardest part of my entire three-year recovery has been knowing that my parents, my brothers, were suffering through this burden of injury and recovery, something I volunteered for that they didn’t ask for.’ – Kyle Carpenter

‘Music is a mysterious phenomenon – it seems both to magically overwhelm and sublimate our suffering, but also to starkly dignify the struggles of our daily life.’ – Andrew W.K.

‘The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘I’m suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘Happiness is the cessation of suffering.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Under the leadership of this President, the state of the union is not strong. We are being pulled apart rather than pulling together. Our democracy is suffering from the choices being made, and yet we are offered the same tired excuses and unrealistic analyses.’ – Jose Serrano

‘Suffering is always hard to quantify – especially when the pain is caused by as cruel a disease as Alzheimer’s. Most illnesses attack the body; Alzheimer’s destroys the mind – and in the process, annihilates the very self.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally half-baked. If all you do is work to fix problems, to alleviate suffering, then by definition you are working to get people to zero, to neutral.’ – Martin Seligman

‘No matter what anybody thinks about any of them, every record I’ve done has been done with the same amount of care, anguish, pain, suffering, and joy.’ – Patti Smith

‘In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honorable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.’ – Viktor E. Frankl

‘I learned a lot about pain and suffering during ‘Pan Am.’ We had to wear very constricting period-correct girdles and bras. After that, I learned to read a script with an eye toward the undergarments.’ – Margot Robbie

‘Generally, I think America is America. America has been through suffering like other countries, but America will come up. I have no doubt. It’s just going to bounce. You know, you have ups and downs.’ – Ivana Trump

‘Over the course of my 13-year career, I’ve had a lot of concussions, and yet, because I’m no longer competing or suffering from concussion symptoms, I felt like I was in the clear. The reality, though, is that I get concussions far more easily, and my symptoms last far longer than ever before.’ – Gretchen Bleiler

‘Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.’ – Jane Roberts

‘Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.’ – Leon Kass

‘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.’ – Martin Sheen

‘All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.’ – Helen Keller

‘From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere – there’s so much suffering going on – so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something.’ – Jonathan Van Ness

‘Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.’ – Marcel Proust

‘What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided – they were one and the same thing.’ – Paolo Sorrentino

‘You couldn’t enclose people in institutions or hospitals or almshouses in the way the Victorians managed to do. India was too big. Seeing the suffering people was terrible, but I think I was more distraught at the needless cruelty to so many animals.’ – Spike Milligan

‘Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.’ – Michael J. Knowles

‘All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.’ – Richard Gere

‘Those suffering from spondylitis and arthiritis are not advised to perform certain asanas.’ – Sushma Swaraj

‘Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.’ – Aeschylus

‘Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn’t be suffering.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘We’re in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture – but above all else, we’re concerned with the relief of human suffering.’ – Jon Huntsman, Sr.

‘I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.’ – Paul Bloom

‘When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.’ – Philip Yancey

‘As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don’t recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It’s important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.’ – Vivek Murthy

‘Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue.’ – Paul Kalanithi

‘Sometimes when you’re suffering really intensely, you can’t pray for yourself.’ – Anne Graham Lotz

‘We are not our own. We do not belong to ourselves. But we have been purchased with a dear price. We have cost an immense sum, even the sufferings and death of the Son of God.’ – Ellen G. White

‘South Sudan is my home, and I am humbled to be in a position to help those suffering from lack of access to basic needs, especially the children facing severe acute malnutrition.’ – Luol Deng

‘I was raised in Duluth, Minnesota, where you never say that you’re cold, or that you’re suffering, and you listen politely to people, even if you disagree with them completely. Then you say passive-aggressive things later.’ – Maria Bamford

‘I do not believe that the hungry man should be treated as subversive for expressing his suffering.’ – √ìscar Arias

‘A lot of people think they should be happy all the time. But the writer understands you need both. You need the whole piano: the richness of the whole human experience. Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.’ – Janet Fitch

‘If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.’ – Alexander McCall Smith

‘How can you regret helping a suffering patient?’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don’t get the care they need and deserve, and the police can’t get on with the job they are trained to do.’ – Theresa May

‘There is no amount of money I can make which could buffer my daughter from the horrors that will explode in our society if we do not address the huge amount of suffering in our midst.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘Laughter is a way of really letting out all this pressure that you could face in your daily life in the suffering of your people, and comedy is almost like a medicine to your soul in a way.’ – Hiam Abbass

‘Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘I’ve always loved the blues, ever since I was a kid. It has a depth to it that a lot of contemporary music doesn’t have. It has pain and suffering in it, but funny stories, too. And it is built on storytelling, which is something I really love.’ – Nickolas Ashford

‘It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.’ – Susan Sontag

‘What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.’ – Rodrigo Duterte

‘Suffering doesn’t improve human beings, does it?’ – Herta Muller

‘For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.’ – Daniel Kahneman

‘Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.’ – Percy Bysshe Shelley

‘In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.’ – Kenneth Scott Latourette

‘I don’t think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I’m concerned about are at the top of other people’s agendas – not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.’ – Patti Smith

‘I hate this idea that there are some people who have a right to express their suffering and others who don’t, that there are those in this hierarchy of pain who own it more than you do.’ – Eric Fischl

‘There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.’ – John Agyekum Kufuor

‘That freedom can never be attained by a nation without suffering and sacrifice has been amply borne out by the recent tragic happenings in this subcontinent.’ – Muhammad Ali Jinnah

‘We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.’ – W. Somerset Maugham

‘Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.’ – Miguel de Unamuno

‘If I remember the suffering of my childhood and youth, it could make me sad. But if one thinks of the benefits, it is precisely because of these sufferings since I was small that I have become a man. I have become a person who thinks, who has feelings, because I have suffered.’ – Suharto

‘Of course fear does not automatically lead to courage. Injury does not necessarily lead to insight. Hardship will not automatically make us better. Pain can break us or make us wiser. Suffering can destroy us or make us stronger. Fear can cripple us, or it can make us more courageous. It is resilience that makes the difference.’ – Eric Greitens

‘All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.’ – Bodhidharma

‘I hope every woman out there who wants to be a mother and is suffering with infertility, will explore all the options and know that if you choose the science route, it is okay.’ – Cindy Margolis

‘What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.’ – Friedrich Nietzsche

‘For me, motivation is easy. I enjoy what I’m doing, and I’m lucky to play tennis. I enjoy the suffering. It’s something quite natural for me to go on the court and suffer, and to go in the gym and to suffer, and to know the only way to get better is to work out – that’s what I like.’ – Stan Wawrinka

‘Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious aspects. I believe that the differences of faith are not the real reason for these conflicts.’ – Alcee Hastings

‘The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘Many Russia experts note the deep and sad capacity of the Russian people for suffering.’ – Roger Altman

‘I think doctors are really suffering now. They’re suffering in the sense that they feel torn between serving their patients in the best way they can and dealing with all of requirements of the insurance companies and the HMOs and the hassles and the paper work and the increasing pressures to do less and less for their patients.’ – Marcia Angell

‘Mainly I’m a vegan because I like animals, and I don’t want to be involved in their suffering. Also, it’s better for my health and for the environment.’ – Moby

‘The establishment of Israel was accompanied by much pain and suffering and a real trauma for the Palestinians.’ – Reuven Rivlin

‘Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.’ – Tony Benn

‘To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.’ – Mother Angelica

‘Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered… the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith… All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.’ – Thomas Becket

‘Listening to and understanding our inner sufferings will resolve most of the problems we encounter.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘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

‘The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting – it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.’ – Alveda King

‘The ongoing conflict between us has caused heavy suffering to both peoples. The future can and must be different. Both our peoples are destined to live together side by side, on this small piece of land. This reality we cannot change.’ – Ariel Sharon

‘First of all, do any of you here think it’s a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? Any of you think it is? Say so right now. Well, then, what are we doing here?’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘Religion has convinced us that there’s something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There’s concerns about what God wants, there’s concerns about what’s going to happen in the afterlife.’ – Sam Harris

‘Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.’ – Eckhart Tolle

‘You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.’ – Ernest Renan

‘Life is not to be expended in vain regrets. No day, no hour, comes but brings in its train work to be performed for some useful end – the suffering to be comforted, the wandering led home, the sinner reclaimed. Oh! How can any fold the hands to rest and say to the spirit, ‘Take thine ease, for all is well!” – Dorothea Dix

‘Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.’ – Donald Cargill

‘China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.’ – Malcolm Turnbull

‘I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.’ – Fritz Kreisler

‘To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can’t live with it, and we can’t live without it. You’ll rarely find a happy ending in my work.’ – Krzysztof Kieslowski

‘In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the great work of the atonement. The glorious plan of man’s salvation was brought about through the infinite love of God the Father. In this divine plan is seen the most marvelous manifestation of the love of God to the fallen race.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it’s an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.’ – Julie Christie

‘Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.’ – Patanjali

‘Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.’ – Liz Smith

‘Due to mistakenly believing that outer problems are their own problems, most people seek ultimate refuge in the wrong objects. As a result, their suffering and problems never end.’ – Kelsang Gyatso

‘I went to the doctor on the advice of some people that work closely with me and found out that I was suffering from thyroid problems as well as low testosterone problems.’ – James Toney

‘I have a collective sense of suffering.’ – Alice Walker

‘Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘I ask the American administration not to participate in any resolution that will double the suffering of the Palestinian people. I am convinced that the American people would not want to see the Palestinians suffer the way they do.’ – Ismail Haniyeh

‘I haven’t been very good about dealing with disappointment. I suffer it, and then when that suffering becomes a kind of predation, then it’s gone. Because the disappointment is not always realistic.’ – Donald Sutherland

‘The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust – not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.’ – Brennan Manning

‘Passing a beggar who asks for money causes discomfort – and so it should. The act of facing and acknowledging human suffering and hardship on this scale ought to imprint itself on a society that has such glaring divides in income and comfort.’ – Dawn Foster

‘If you are suffering from your intemperance in eating or in drinking, we that are around you, or associated with you, are affected by your infirmities. We have to suffer on account of the course you pursue, which is wrong. If it has an influence to lessen your powers of mind or body, we are affected by it.’ – Ellen G. White

‘I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust.’ – Siegfried Sassoon

‘Let a nation’s fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.’ – Edward Everett

‘Probably most dying patients, even when suffering greatly, would choose to live as long as possible. That courage and grace should be protected and honored, and we should put every effort into treating their symptoms.’ – Marcia Angell

‘Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.’ – Fred Thompson

‘Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically.’ – Robert Mugabe

‘Life ceases to be so oppressive: we are free to give our own lives meaning and purpose, free to redeem our suffering by making something of it.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘Florence Nightingale was an amazing figure. She created the American Red Cross. She saw the suffering from bad health conditions on the battlefield and in the military hospitals, and she fought like crazy to change the conditions; to make sure that the doctors washed their hands and practiced sanitary measures. She put herself at great risks.’ – Sharon Lawrence

‘I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one’s work.’ – Patti Smith

‘Are you not moved to tears and bitter compassion, when you behold the only Son of God seized by the most impious, dragged away, mocked, scourged, buffeted, spit upon, crowned with thorns, hung upon the infamous cross between two thieves, finally in such a horrible and execrable manner suffering death, for your salvation and that of the world?’ – Peter Abelard

‘Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact.’ – Andrea Dworkin

‘North Korea cannot change because its people don’t realize that there is an alternative to their suffering.’ – Park Yeon-mi

‘Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.’ – Patrick Henry

‘But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven’t read them.’ – Alexander McCall Smith

‘On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America.’ – George W. Bush

‘Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.’ – Daisaku Ikeda

‘Places change over time with or without oil spills, but humans are responsible for the Deepwater Horizon gusher – and humans, as well as the corals, fish and other creatures, are suffering the consequences.’ – Sylvia Earle

‘You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.’ – Thich Nhat Hanh

‘Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It’s to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there’s a bit of suffering along the way.’ – Andrea Pirlo

‘I know what it’s like to feel marginalized and defeated and humiliated by suffering from a mental illness.’ – Margaret Trudeau

‘Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.’ – Peter Singer

‘Tell the people… please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I’m suffering a lot, but I love them.’ – George Wallace

‘After so much suffering, after enduring so much sacrifice, sanctioned and embraced by our people, what is it that the people of East Timor expect as a result of independence?’ – Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao

‘For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.’ – Wendell Berry

‘When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘My intent was to carry out my duty as a doctor, to end their suffering. Unfortunately, that entailed, in their cases, ending of the life.’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.’ – Egon Schiele

‘Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal – ‘I’m not letting go until I get what I want’ – it’s a problem.’ – Joni Eareckson Tada

‘Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need – especially women, children and the elderly.’ – Sergei Lavrov

‘You can do pretty much anything you want to do in America as a black, including become president. Still, the legacy of our victimization, of our suffering and exclusion from the mainstream of American life, has left its mark.’ – Shelby Steele

‘We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.’ – Abraham Verghese

‘I have two children of my own. Crying is not evidence of pain or any real suffering. It’s really just the way children communicate.’ – Jill Greenberg

‘The Why’s of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.’ – Vanity

‘The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.’ – Saint Ignatius

‘So much of the world’s suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It’s our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.’ – Lee Strobel

‘Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.’ – Horace

‘A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.’ – Jules Renard

‘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.’ – Kofi Annan

‘To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man’s leadership.’ – Jessica Lange

‘Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.’ – Virgil

‘Suffering is part of the divine idea.’ – Henry Ward Beecher

‘Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.’ – Anatole France

‘We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.’ – Edward Dahlberg

‘Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?’ – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

‘The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.’ – Samuel Smiles

‘When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘We are suffering from too much sarcasm.’ – Marianne Moore

‘More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems: back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.’ – Robert Orben

‘They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.’ – Katherine Anne Porter

‘What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.’ – Harold Bloom

‘Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.’ – Thomas Carlyle

‘Experience is the extract of suffering.’ – Arthur Helps

‘It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.’ – Guy Verhofstadt

‘I hope that the mistakes made and suffering imposed upon Japanese Americans nearly 60 years ago will not be repeated against Arab Americans whose loyalties are now being called into question.’ – Daniel Inouye

‘Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.’ – Tom Harkin

‘How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.’ – Edwin Way Teale

‘Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.’ – Aleksander Kwasniewski

‘We know enough to stand here in truth – facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims’ families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.’ – Aleksander Kwasniewski

‘If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.’ – Helen Clark

‘We in the west are seen as godless, as greedy and as uncaring about the suffering of those in the developing world.’ – Silvia Cartwright

‘If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of course we would seek death to escape this ‘vale of tears’.’ – Claude Vorilhon

‘To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.’ – Claude Vorilhon

‘There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn’t bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it’s hard to see, it’s important to understand that these people exist.’ – Mia Farrow

‘As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of the Holocaust.’ – Bob Beauprez

‘Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.’ – Naomi Watts

‘Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.’ – Will Harvey

‘I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual’s suffering?’ – Andrea Corr

‘We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘He’s suffering from Politicians’ Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.’ – Antony Jay

‘When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.’ – Frank Wolf

‘Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.’ – Arthur Henderson

‘We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.’ – Arthur Henderson

‘Grief causes suffering and disease.’ – Daniel D. Palmer

‘It wasn’t until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.’ – Corazon Aquino

‘Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.’ – Dennis Prager

‘It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.’ – Cat Stevens

‘How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.’ – Julius Gordon

‘To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.’ – Gwen John

‘There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That’s not what the American people want to hear.’ – Frank Luntz

‘The most challenging part of being a boss is that nobody will tell you if your work is suffering.’ – Bill Williams

‘If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally – every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.’ – Charles Bent

‘They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.’ – Lewis Tappan

‘Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.’ – John Desmond Bernal

‘I was teaching in one of the universities while the country was suffering from a severe famine. People were dying of hunger, and I felt very helpless. As an economist, I had no tool in my tool box to fix that kind of situation.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.’ – Donald Cargill

‘Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.’ – Donald Cargill

‘I wish we didn’t have to own up to a policy deliberately designed to inflict suffering on people who have already been traumatised in the countries from which they’ve fled.’ – Hugh Mackay

‘But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.’ – Merton Miller

‘The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.’ – Gabriel Marcel

‘It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too – to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.’ – Bruce Davison

‘The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.’ – Ted Olson

‘There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.’ – Susan George

‘The suffering caused by the terrorists is the real torture.’ – Jean-Marie Le Pen

‘We initially targeted pager networks, which have been suffering for the last decade due to cell phone sales.’ – David Rose

‘One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that’s taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.’ – Isabelle Adjani

‘Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.’ – Basil Hume

‘I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people.’ – Elfriede Jelinek

‘Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential to regenerate specific types of human tissues, offering hope for millions of Americans suffering from debilitating diseases.’ – Jim Ramstad

‘Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.’ – Thomas Sydenham

‘From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems – democracy.’ – Jack Kingston

‘It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over – if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua – that even in conditions of peace they don’t seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous.’ – John Negroponte

‘The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.’ – Paul Dirac

‘The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘Thirdly, even if we assume that the world is governed by purpose, we need only add that this purpose – or, if there are several, at least one of them – is not especially intent on preventing suffering, whether it is indifferent to suffering or actually rejoices in it.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘It is widely assumed, contrary to fact, that theism necessarily involves the two assumptions which cannot be squared with the existence of so much suffering, and that therefore, per impossibile, they simply have to be squared with the existence of all this suffering, somehow.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘It does not follow that the meaning must be given from above; that life and suffering must come neatly labeled; that nothing is worth while if the world is not governed by a purpose.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.’ – Walter Kaufmann

‘Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.’ – Margaret J. Wheatley

‘I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.’ – George Murray

‘Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a God and if he is a loving and merciful God, how do you explain the problems of suffering and death and all the tragedies that happen to people?’ – John Clayton

‘But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.’ – Mercy Otis Warren

‘For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.’ – Michael Pollan

‘Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.’ – Carol Bellamy

‘I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.’ – Richard Pryor

‘Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.’ – Pamela Stephenson

‘I am sure there will come a time when we are going to use AMD. The products have been getting better. The acceptance is getting better. But we have not been suffering as a company for either growth or profitability because we haven’t had AMD.’ – Kevin Rollins

‘I pass over the toil and suffering and danger which attended the redemption and cultivation of their lands by the colonists, and turn to their civil condition and to the conduct and history of the government.’ – William H. Wharton

‘I don’t think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.’ – Layne Staley

‘It’s from our sufferings that we form our consciousness.’ – Lisa Bonet

‘Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.’ – Jerzy Kosinski

‘We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.’ – Hjalmar Branting

‘In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.’ – Margaret Cavendish

‘Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?’ – Ernst Toller

‘In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.’ – Andrew Coyle Bradley

‘Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy – not defeat or death.’ – Whittaker Chambers

‘I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.’ – Kenzaburo Oe

‘We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.’ – Emily Greene Balch

‘I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn’t thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I’ve never been more alive as when I worked on this book.’ – Laura Hillenbrand

‘Local economies are suffering as people spend more on fuel and less on consumer goods and travel.’ – Dan Lipinski

‘If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body’s sufferings. We shall become free.’ – Vinoba Bhave

‘Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.’ – James F. Byrnes

‘I think the idea that you can go this alone is – was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.’ – Michael Chertoff

‘Pacino’s always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.’ – Jason Patric

‘Hezbollah’s contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.’ – Tom Lantos

‘Too many of my constituents, like many other hard working Americans across the country, are suffering unnecessarily due to our flawed health care system.’ – John Conyers

‘The Middle East is more angry than ever. I’m afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous – so it won’t go away will it?’ – Clare Short

‘I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.’ – Clare Short

‘And we know there has been horrendous loss of life and suffering and we know that there is anger. Anyone who came anywhere near the general election in constituencies with a substantial Muslim population knows that.’ – Clare Short

‘I have this helicopter crash, and I fall in love with this man who was in the crash with me. I must have been suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome.’ – Christie Brinkley

‘In order to be cruel we have to close our hearts to the suffering of the other.’ – J. M. Coetzee

‘In addition to relieving patient suffering, research is needed to help reduce the enormous economic and social burdens posed by chronic diseases such as osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, cancer, heart disease, and stroke.’ – Ike Skelton

‘Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.’ – Ike Skelton

‘In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.’ – Ernest Lawrence

‘People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that’s not true. You’re always better off living.’ – Dashiell Hammett

‘The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.’ – Ralph Merkle

‘Apart altogether from our own vital interests, we cannot and must not desert those other nations who have already gone through so much tragedy and suffering to defeat the evil designs of the Axis powers.’ – Stafford Cripps

‘The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.’ – Armistead Maupin

‘Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.’ – Compay Segundo

‘Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago.’ – Eamon de Valera

‘I believe in people, especially suffering people.’ – Pat Buckley

‘If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.’ – Harold Bloom

‘Texas’ and America’s farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.’ – Michael McCaul

‘I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.’ – Naguib Mahfouz

‘Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.’ – Georges Duhamel

‘We don’t have a major problem right now in our country, and life is normal. Things like unemployment, which the youth are suffering from, and the rate of inflation – these are chronic conditions and we have to solve them.’ – Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

‘People are really suffering these days. There’s a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.’ – Laurie Anderson

‘The parts for women, you’re either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.’ – Lauren Graham

‘Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.’ – Andre Malraux

‘All the arguments to prove man’s superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.’ – Peter Singer

‘The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.’ – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

‘That cry of the soul to be lifted out of the bondage of the narrow circle of life, which carries up to God the protest and yearning of suffering man, never finds a more sublime expression than where humanity is oppressed and religion is corrupt.’ – Hall Caine

‘There is no disgrace in an enemy suffering ill at an enemy’s hand, when you hate mutually.’ – Aeschylus

‘There’s nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn’t abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.’ – H. G. Wells

‘Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.’ – Sarah Fielding

‘He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.’ – Hesiod

‘One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man’s suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures.’ – Denis Diderot

‘We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.’ – Angela Carter

‘Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.’ – Ira Gershwin

‘If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.’ – Jim Doyle

‘It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one’s own suffering.’ – Robert Staughton Lynd

‘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.’ – Arthur Helps

‘Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.’ – Albert Bandura

‘As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of their suffering, we feel deeply and profoundly that we should be there, in Haiti, with them, trying our best to prevent death.’ – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

‘As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.’ – Jean-Bertrand Aristide

‘The idea that every time you do a film you’re supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, ‘Oh, it’s really tough, my character is really suffering’ -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we’ve had a good time. I don’t think you have to suffer.’ – George Clooney

‘When they call the slightest spending reductions ‘painful’, we will say ‘If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?’ And ‘If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.” – Mitch Daniels

‘Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my age and build could be suffering from bulimia nervosa, but that’s what the consultant said I had.’ – John Prescott

‘The American people know the economy is too weak. Too many of them are suffering. So the question for Washington is, are we going to continue to play political games and – and – or are we going to say, we can do something right now to create jobs, to put money in the pockets of the middle-class, hire construction workers, teachers, veterans?’ – David Plouffe

‘I’m attracted to subjects who overcome tremendous suffering and learn to cope emotionally with it.’ – Laura Hillenbrand

‘My illness is excruciating and difficult to cope with. It takes over your entire life and causes more suffering than I can describe.’ – Laura Hillenbrand

‘I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.’ – Mahmoud Abbas

‘I’ve just been growing right along. It’s painful, but it’s a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It’s like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you’re looking so hot.’ – Mary J. Blige

‘I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘Suffering will get you great footage. I don’t know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I’ve suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.’ – Johnny Knoxville

‘The Iraqi people are suffering just as if they were still under Saddam.’ – Muqtada al Sadr

‘Our arguments – and those of hundreds more Venezuelans suffering the same injustice – are clear and forceful: political disqualification violates laws in Venezuela and throughout the continent.’ – Leopoldo Lopez

‘Obviously, I’m suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.’ – Bernard Lagat

‘I don’t look at myself as suffering.’ – A. J. Langer

‘People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They’re also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.’ – Hamid Karzai

‘As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.’ – Hamid Karzai

‘Comedians don’t have a monopoly on suffering. But creative people are sometimes fortunate enough to be able to incorporate their most traumatic experiences into their art.’ – Matt Lucas

‘I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early ’60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.’ – Ron Paul

‘My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.’ – Steven Seagal

‘Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.’ – Alice Walker

‘And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don’t need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don’t need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.’ – Artur Davis

‘I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.’ – Cheryl Strayed

‘There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.’ – Gary L. Francione

‘Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It’s strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.’ – Gary L. Francione

‘We don’t need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don’t need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.’ – Artur Davis

‘There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don’t know what that is, I’m really curious about that. I’m really curious about what people think they’re doing when they’re doing something evil, casually. I think it’s really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.’ – Louis C. K.

‘We must be honest in acknowledging that neither Germany nor the U.S. has the luxury of assuming that we can skate by on half-measures in Afghanistan and Pakistan and not risk suffering the consequences.’ – Susan Rice

‘The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.’ – Russell Simmons

‘Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can’t eat.’ – Ralph Fiennes

‘If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we’re going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.’ – Salvatore J. Cordileone

‘I’m definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.’ – Kevin Sorbo

‘I admit I can’t shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.’ – Hugh Laurie

‘Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.’ – Aung San Suu Kyi

‘One principle I’ve been fighting for that doesn’t endear me to a lot of people is that black people can be just as complicated and screwed up as white people. Our motives can be just as base and violent. Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can’t black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?’ – Henry Louis Gates

‘What I remember as a child is that other kids didn’t care about suffering. I always did.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘My denial and irresponsible attitude about asthma put me at great risk and caused me so much needless suffering. My hope is that the kids I talk to learn to open up about their asthma, become educated about their condition, and seek help.’ – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

‘The aircraft that blew up the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington conveyed several messages to the world, of which one of the least remarked is this: the Muslims of the world are suffering.’ – James Buchan

‘If anything, we older people yearn for a peaceful world even more than young people do. We are the ones who lost friends or relatives in some war. We are the ones who have lived a lifetime of seeing and reading about human suffering.’ – Dennis Prager

‘In most of the world, it is accepted that if animals are to be killed for food, they should be killed without suffering.’ – Peter Singer

‘These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.’ – Lucy Powell

‘National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.’ – Park Geun-hye

‘Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.’ – Phil McGraw

‘Suffering does not discriminate.’ – Shania Twain

‘All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.’ – Karen Armstrong

‘Acting is wonderful therapy for people. Instead of suffering for yourself, someone will do it for you.’ – Sophie Marceau

‘Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering under Kim Jong-Il.’ – Ed Royce

‘I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn’t eradicate the reality of the suffering. It’s all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.’ – George Saunders

‘I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.’ – Yulia Tymoshenko

‘Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am responsible for. I am responsible for being the son of two people who got murdered. I didn’t cause their murder. But if I’m suffering because of it, it’s my karma that I have manifested in this lifetime in this particular set of circumstances.’ – Patrick Duffy

‘Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors’ houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that’s not the way the novelistic ecology works.’ – Lev Grossman

‘I didn’t appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It’s never good to add to anybody else’s suffering. It’s an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of – dealing with dignity.’ – Margaret Cho

‘After spending time with the rescued turkeys at Farm Sanctuary’s shelter and seeing how similar they are to my furry companion animals at home, I knew I needed to do everything in my power to protect these friendly and curious birds from the daily pain and suffering they endure on factory farms.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

‘In high school, I had two friends that were suffering from cancer. I would go and sing for them while they were in hospital, and I sang at their services after they passed.’ – Matthew Morrison

‘Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality the things that fascinated me were how absolutely ruthless and violent so many engagements were, how much suffering and how men were not prepared.’ – Seth Grahame-Smith

‘Being asked to support humane meat means being asked to support the suffering of animals in transport, to approve of treatment that causes them palpable fear, their bodies shaking and their eyes wide as saucers, as they are slung by their legs into crates that are slammed onto the back of a truck.’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day – at every meal.’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live up to its promises, or actively betrays them.’ – Greil Marcus

‘There’s no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?’ – Meshell Ndegeocello

‘It’s good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.’ – Michael Morpurgo

‘If you’re going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.’ – Ellie Kemper

‘Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn’t there anymore.’ – Rob Bell

‘Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness – broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.’ – Gary Bauer

‘In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.’ – Junichiro Koizumi

‘With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it’s something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn’t mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.’ – Carolyn McCarthy

‘The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It’s nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I’m getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.’ – Garry Trudeau

‘I hear music that comes out of need, out of grief, sorrow, suffering and out of overcoming these things, as well. That journey to freedom still goes on today. It’s an incremental change, the culmination of many events in your own life and the lives of your children and grandchildren.’ – Kathleen Battle

‘Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing, but it also reflects upon Jesus and his non compliance in the face of great authority where he holds to his truth – so there’s two stories there.’ – Michael Leunig

‘There is some suffering that awaits us all.’ – Michael Leunig

‘The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act – we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can’t find what we’re looking for.’ – Michael Leunig

‘I learned that I suffered from bipolar II disorder, a less serious variant of bipolar I, which was once known as manic depression. The information was naturally frightening; up to 1 in 5 people with bipolar disorder will commit suicide, and rates may even be higher for those suffering from bipolar II.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘The word ‘suffering’ is not in my vocabulary.’ – Judith Jamison

‘Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.’ – Leona Lewis

‘What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness – a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren’t possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.’ – Jeffrey Kluger

‘I think viewers quite like it when I’m suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.’ – Bear Grylls

‘Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.’ – Greg Iles

‘I have always been interested in how you can depict suffering without being heavy-handed.’ – Marlene Dumas

‘I don’t think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.’ – Hugh Masekela

‘You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.’ – Christina Romer

‘A legislature cannot be effective while suffering from public scorn.’ – John Bercow

‘The things that drive me crazy are coming from this place of people suffering because of people polluting into rivers or whatever. It’s not simply just about systems; it’s an emotional reaction to seeing animals or people suffering.’ – Mike White

‘For one thing, I don’t think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it’s only the art about pain that is interpreted as profound, and in my work for years I’ve really tried to deal with subjects that are substantial, not just fluffy, but presented in a more playful, approachable kind of way.’ – Ellen Forney

‘Any time there is ‘un-forgiveness’ between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don’t understand… there is suffering.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?’ – Katherine Boo

‘When our purpose is external, we may never find it. If we tie our purpose or meaning to our vocation, goal or an activity, we’re more than likely setting ourselves up for suffering down the line.’ – Kris Carr

‘Teenagers all think their life is a movie. If you break up with someone or you have a fight, you walk around with movie scores playing in your head. You sort of see yourself suffering as you’re suffering. There’s a lot of melodrama attached to the real events of your life.’ – Kenneth Lonergan

‘We need stem-cell research, no question about it. It is absolutely crucial for moving our medical science forward. We are trying to harness an untapped source of energy that can provide cures and possibly even prevent disease and suffering.’ – Richard Carmona

‘I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.’ – Kay Redfield Jamison

‘Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.’ – Khaled Hosseini

‘It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.’ – Lee Strobel

‘When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.’ – Lee Strobel

‘There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it’s all an illusion.’ – Lee Strobel

‘I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘It’s a rare and precious thing to be close to suffering because our society – in many ways – tells us that suffering is wrong. If it’s our own suffering, we try to hide it or isolate ourselves. If others are suffering, we’re taught to put them away somewhere so we don’t have to see it.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘It’s difficult to admit to ourselves that we suffer. We feel humiliated, like we should have been able to control our pain. If someone else is suffering, we like to tuck them away, out of sight. It’s a cruel, cruel conditioning. There is no controlling the unfolding of life.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘If we have a very strong commitment, so that we can trust ourselves and be beacons of trust for others no matter what the circumstance, then we’re protected from suffering the consequences of many actions. We can be protected from that pain.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘As we look around, it’s very clear that in this world people do outrageous things to one another all of the time. It’s not that these qualities or actions make us bad people, but they bring tremendous suffering if we don’t know how to work with them.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘We come to meditation to learn how not to act out the habitual tendencies we generally live by – those actions that create suffering for ourselves and others, and get us into so much trouble.’ – Sharon Salzberg

‘The moment we realize that the only things we can intelligibly value are actual and potential changes in the experience of conscious beings, we can think about a landscape of such changes – where the peaks correspond to the greatest possible well-being and the valleys correspond to the lowest depths of suffering.’ – Sam Harris

‘There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, ‘Story of a Girl’, was the fourth book I wrote.’ – Sara Zarr

‘My first book, ‘Radical Acceptance’, grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in ‘True Refuge’: nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.’ – Tara Brach

‘Americans are suffering so much from being in unrewarding environments that it has made us very cynical. I think that American suburbia has become a powerful generator of anxiety and depression.’ – James Howard Kunstler

‘The Bible doesn’t sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.’ – Jud Wilhite

‘Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.’ – Yusuf Hamied

‘Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I’ve been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, ‘Let’s look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients’ unnecessary suffering.” – Yusuf Hamied

‘I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of ‘white guilt.’ But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.’ – John Piper

‘Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else’s suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing that you commune, you take communion, you make a community with others.’ – Mary Karr

‘Nothing good gets written without the writer suffering along the way, in my opinion. Writing should be a pleasure, but unless you feel almost broken many, many times in the journey to a novel, you haven’t pushed yourself hard enough.’ – Mohsin Hamid

‘For many people, commuting is the worst part of the day, and policies that can make commuting shorter and more convenient would be a straightforward way to reduce minor but widespread suffering.’ – Nassim Nicholas Taleb

‘The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.’ – Patanjali

‘The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when they are not attempting to salve pangs of conscience by cutting themselves off from a life of delinquency).’ – Tariq Ramadan

‘God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us.’ – Dada Vaswani

‘What is the meaning of ‘gossip?’ Doesn’t it originate with sympathy, an interest in one’s neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one’s self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?’ – Lucy Larcom

‘Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Every merciful act to the needy, the suffering, is as though done to Jesus.’ – Ellen G. White

‘Because we don’t see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God’s existence and goodness.’ – William A. Dembski

‘I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.’ – Delmore Schwartz

‘At any given time, there are a lot of million-dollar luxury charter boats cruising around the Mentawai Islands finding the most incredible waves. And yet the people on shore are suffering. The whole scene is wrong. As a surf community, we have to do something.’ – Rob Machado

‘Therapy is not to ‘talk about’ things, but to change the person’s life, and to relieve suffering, such as depression, anxiety, or relationship problems.’ – David D. Burns

‘It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.’ – Louise L. Hay

‘I’d like to focus on my life on creating new medicines for people who are suffering from rare disease.’ – Martin Shkreli

‘Even if you were aware of children and felt compassion, when you have your own, it multiplies. It breaks your heart to know that there are so many children in the world suffering so much.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.’ – Henry Selick

‘Thousands upon thousands of people across America and many more across the globe are suffering at the hands of the oil and gas industry.’ – Josh Fox

‘I think it’s true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don’t fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.’ – Nouriel Roubini

‘So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.’ – Francis Collins

‘Morality and values depend on the existence of conscious minds – and specifically on the fact that such minds can experience various forms of well-being and suffering in this universe.’ – Sam Harris

‘Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.’ – Mandy Moore

‘Although I’m perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that – feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.’ – Jane McGonigal

‘Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.’ – Julian Baggini

‘It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I’m not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.’ – Julian Baggini

‘We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.’ – Julian Baggini

‘One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn’t be happy. Those were at opposite ends of a continuum. I believe that you can be suffering or have a mental illness and be happy – just not in the same moment that you’re sad.’ – Martin Seligman

‘That’s what Buddhism has been trying to unravel – the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.’ – Matthieu Ricard

‘God wants to free us from ourselves, and there’s nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘There’s nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we’ll dig ourselves out.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God’s chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts.’ – Tullian Tchividjian

‘I read God’s word when I am not suffering. And then I don’t have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.’ – Anne Graham Lotz

‘My family understands the pain of struggling with a loved one who’s suffering from a blood-related cancer, and we seek to support those who are working to find a cure.’ – Nadia Bjorlin

‘I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I’m so not that woman. I’m passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.’ – Annie Lennox

‘I had my appendix removed in my 20s. I was in the middle of a play with Helen Mirren at the Royal Court Theatre, a fabulous career break. Then two weeks in I began suffering the most horrendous pain and had to pull out. Sadly, by the time I’d recovered, the show’s run had ended.’ – Cherie Lunghi

‘Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.’ – Lysette Anthony

‘There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I think that capitalism in general is responsible, not for the worldwide recession, but for a lot of suffering, both in the United States and around the world.’ – Michael Moore

‘The people suffering most from the Taliban were Afghans.’ – Salman Rushdie

‘There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony. There’s no better designer than nature – if you look at a branch or a leaf, it’s perfect. It’s all function. Art is different. It’s about emotion. It’s about suffering and beauty – but mostly suffering!’ – Diane von Furstenberg

‘My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suffering? So whenever I got happy about something, I felt the need to cut it off, and the only way to cut it off was to pray. ‘Forgive me Lord.’ For what, I didn’t know.’ – Gene Wilder

‘Does anyone really go into nursing intending to be apathetic, cold and removed from suffering? I find that very difficult to believe.’ – Jo Brand

‘I don’t want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it’s for their own good and they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps. I want to help them. I want us all to help them.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.’ – Yoko Ono

‘Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me – it’s not as if it’s a pleasure.’ – Colm Toibin

‘As Christians, we worship a victimized Lord. We should expect to suffer and should have particular compassion on those who hurt emotionally and physically. But we do not resemble the Suffering Servant when we take pains to show off our suffering.’ – Kevin DeYoung

‘I’m blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that’s not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.’ – Missy Elliott

‘Why do people hate God?… One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he’s transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.’ – Kirk Cameron

‘Hamas, they are using civilians’ lives, they are using children, they are using the suffering of people every day to achieve their goals. And this is what I hate.’ – Mosab Hassan Yousef

‘In the West, they have no clue what Palestinian suffering is about, and the terrorist attacks give a wrong picture about the just Palestinian cause.’ – Mosab Hassan Yousef

‘Our Heavenly Father knows us and our circumstances and even what faces us in the future. His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, our Savior, has suffered and paid for our sins and those of all the people we will ever meet. He has perfect understanding of the feelings, the suffering, the trials, and the needs of every individual.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘The tithe payer helps the Lord build temples, where families can be sealed forever. The tithe payer helps Him send the gospel to people everywhere. The tithe payer helps Him relieve hunger and suffering in His own way through His servants.’ – Henry B. Eyring

‘If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.’ – Salma Hayek

‘Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.’ – Alicia Keys

‘I wanna stay an eternal girlfriend. I want to have my boyfriend’s children, but I don’t think we need a piece of paper to regulate the game, and we don’t have to go through the whole stress of a wedding and suffering to throw a good party.’ – Shakira

‘What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering.’ – Paul Farmer

‘With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘I’m attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work.’ – Madonna Ciccone

‘Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.’ – Alice Dreger

‘You want a child who never makes you anything but proud? Please. Don’t bother taking on parenthood if you can’t handle the fact that sometimes your child’s identity won’t be what you would have chosen. And if you want to prevent a child from ever suffering? Well, then don’t have a child. No one is born into the world never to suffer.’ – Alice Dreger

‘Israel’s creation was politically amazing and caused by a number of unusual events. And I understand. For centuries, Jews endured horrible suffering, and like other people, deserve the right to self-determination, but the way Israel is going now frightens me. Jews make awkward colonial overlords.’ – Harvey Pekar

‘A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must shatter the foundations of thought and re-create. Only in this way does every individual share in the cataclysm and understand the purpose of sacrifice.’ – Wole Soyinka

‘I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.’ – Ziggy Marley

‘Doing ‘EastEnders’ wasn’t exactly suffering, but my soul’s not in quick-fix TV. Theatre doesn’t pay like TV work pays, though. We all have to live, don’t we?’ – Phil Daniels

‘I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.’ – James Rothman

‘It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.’ – Twiggy

‘In Buddhism, they say attachment to anything only leads to suffering. So when we laugh, it’s our way of saying, ‘I’m unattached to that.’ You’re tickled by it, it makes your lobes do something on their own. So humor is very important to me. I always take that to the stage first.’ – Jason Mraz

‘You’ll never have any trouble with Mr. T, I’m just a big, calm teddy bear kind of guy. Mr. T ain’t ashamed to cry. When I go out and I meet people who are suffering and they come and talk to me, Mr. T cries, Mr. T who could break a man’s jaw with his fist.’ – Mr. T

‘Just think for how long humanity was controlled by mystical, magical thinking – the diseases and suffering that led to. We managed to survive, but just barely. It wasn’t pretty.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind’s collective GDP.’ – Henry Rollins

‘One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one’s mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.’ – Emmeline Pankhurst

‘Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.’ – David D. Burns

‘Reality in movies is the reality of the story you’re telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there’s art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.’ – Caleb Deschanel

‘Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.’ – James Mercer

‘One challenge is trying to extend access to more poorly served communities in rural areas and in the inner city. Sometimes you have kids who are suffering from trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder, and they have no way of getting access to the remedies that are available to them.’ – Scott Stossel

‘What older men and younger women have in common is they are both suffering from different insecurities. She is looking for someone to make her feel safe, and he is looking for someone who doesn’t answer back and is a trophy.’ – Mark Barrowcliffe

‘Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Our greatest hope comes from the knowledge that the Savior broke the bands of death. His victory came through His excruciating pain, suffering, and agony. He atoned for our sins if we repent.’ – James E. Faust

‘I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources – an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.’ – David Harsanyi

‘I wouldn’t have really committed myself to any kind of spiritual lifestyle, I don’t think, if I had not endured great suffering. I think that’s the case with a lot of people.’ – Steve-O

‘Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.’ – Akhil Sharma

‘Finding love is a fixation now, and that’s because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of ‘the happy state.” – Francois Lelord

‘I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.’ – Alice Walker

‘All around the United States of America – in the cities and the counties – our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.’ – Bill Cosby

‘My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you’d otherwise cry.’ – Honeysuckle Weeks

‘Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers’ natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn’t indicate pain or suffering.’ – Jill Greenberg

‘At its best, fiction cultivates fantasy and compassion; at its worst, memoir provokes schadenfreude and prurience. The ugly truth, I fear, is that many people are drawn to sensational memoirs for the same reason they watch ‘The Apprentice’: they like to witness actual suffering, before-your-very-eyes humiliation.’ – Julia Glass

‘An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.’ – Sebastian Horsley

‘Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.’ – Sebastian Horsley

‘Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat – such as conscientiously hunted animals – involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.’ – Tristram Stuart

‘Half of the hospital beds in sub-Saharan Africa are filled with people suffering from what are generally known as water-related diseases.’ – Rose George

‘There’s no better feeling in the world than knowing that my show played a role in stopping animal abuse or alleviating animal suffering.’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell

‘Why are kids being inundated with food that is not good for them, when we’re suffering from an obesity crisis? Is the U.S. government talking out of both sides of its mouth, promoting bad food while telling us not to eat it?’ – Jane Velez-Mitchell

‘In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.’ – Mechai Viravaidya

‘Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.’ – Sherwin B. Nuland

‘Medical judgment can be taught – laboriously, in long periods of training – but it cannot be neatly handed over as the occasion demands it. It is the irreplaceable and untransferable contribution that the healer makes to the suffering individual who would be healed.’ – Sherwin B. Nuland

‘When something happens to you, suffering doesn’t begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing – as something that is wrong.’ – Srikumar Rao

‘Every day, we at the United Nations see the human toll of an absence of regulations or lax controls on the arms trade. We see it in the suffering of civilian populations trapped by armed conflict or pervasive crime. We see it in the killing and wounding of civilians – including children, the most vulnerable of all.’ – Ban Ki-moon

‘Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.’s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.’ – Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan

‘One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There’s sort of contagiousness to the crying. It’s not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.’ – Paul Bloom

‘We have no middle ground, no foggy gray area where we can sin a little without suffering spiritual decline. That is why we must repent and come to Christ daily on submissive knees so that we can prevent our bonfires of testimony from being snuffed out by sin.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other ‘isms’ that cause so much suffering in the world.’ – Octavia E. Butler

‘It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.’ – Dennis Prager

‘My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.’ – Peter Singer

‘I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don’t alleviate suffering when they could.’ – Peter Singer

‘Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?’ – Radhanath Swami

‘Suffering isn’t a moral endowment. People don’t always do well under duress, and it seemed to me to be truer to a fellow in that situation to make him angry.’ – E. L. Doctorow

‘Once we’re willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what was ‘safe,’ we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities.’ – Martha Beck

‘In human rights and peacemaking, it’s really about having a solid concrete goal – the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world – and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.’ – John Prendergast

‘There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.’ – Jennifer Grey

‘I have been suffering for so long and didn’t even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.’ – Jennifer Grey

‘Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa’s image on Besra’s abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.’ – Charles Duhigg

‘That whole sex symbol thing I never took seriously to begin with. Thank goodness, or I’d be suffering right now because it’s out of your hands what happens to you with age.’ – Bo Derek

‘You don’t want to diminish anybody’s pain and suffering.’ – James Callis

‘To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that – that would be happiness enough.’ – Michael Leunig

‘I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.’ – Tammy Faye Bakker

‘When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there’s a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there’s a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘The reason I wrote ‘I’m Too Young for This!’ is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss – and it is true suffering. You can’t sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.’ – Suzanne Somers

‘What can I say: I’m a writer – I enjoy forcing pain and suffering on my characters!’ – Marie Lu

‘My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.’ – Sam Shepard

‘I had a few problems. I didn’t realise it until I started going to therapy. I did it for 10 years, two days a week, and pretty quickly I understood that a lot of my suffering, many of my issues, were rooted in my realising that I was gay when I was a little boy. I knew I was different. That made me very fragile.’ – Stefano Gabbana

‘Pacifism as a mass movement aims to avoid suffering; pacifists often say that no cause is worth suffering or dying for. The ethos of Solidarity is based on an opposite premise – that there are causes worth suffering and dying for.’ – Adam Michnik

‘I think one thing is that anybody who’s had to contend with mental illness – whether it’s depression, bipolar illness or severe anxiety, whatever – actually has a fair amount of resilience in the sense that they’ve had to deal with suffering already, personal suffering.’ – Kay Redfield Jamison

‘When I think back to my childhood, it’s with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.’ – Rory Bremner

‘Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.’ – Max Heindel

‘I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.’ – Kailash Satyarthi

‘Suffering produces a recursion to the tribe, to one’s own kind. When a lot of people suffer, tribes lose their head.’ – Giles Foden

‘All Democrats are not entitlement people. These are the people who are going to suffer the cost of Obama health care. These are the people who are suffering because there’re no jobs.’ – Carl Paladino

‘Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.’ – Adam Hamilton

‘If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would be much, much better.’ – Michel Onfray

‘I think that in Sweden and a lot of European countries, there’s this whole mythology of the wounded artist: that you can’t really do any great art unless you’re suffering.’ – Joel Kinnaman

‘In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells.’ – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran

‘It’s not as if I’ve been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven’t lived through terrible literary suffering!’ – Siri Hustvedt

‘When I was a lot younger, I did some work with St. Jude’s, but then we went on a ‘Red Band’ tour across the United States, and we went to a bunch of hospitals and had the privilege of meeting kids who are suffering or going through these different situations.’ – Nolan Sotillo

‘Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals.’ – Dan Hill

‘Even though I am smiling, I have some suffering in my heart.’ – Chen Guangbiao

‘I love ‘The Sportswriter’ by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It’s stoic, sad, and really beautiful.’ – Mark Ruffalo

‘When I took my shirt off against Caen, everybody asked what these new tattoos were. I had 15 removable tattoos on my body; they are the names of real people who are suffering from hunger in the world.’ – Zlatan Ibrahimovic

‘In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.’ – Ahmed Zewail

‘At school, I’d refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn’t bear the thought of them suffering.’ – Imelda May

‘We have lost close friends and relatives to cancer and Parkinson’s disease, and the level of personal suffering inflicted on patients and their families by these diseases is horrific.’ – Peter Jackson

‘May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?’ – Nicky Oppenheimer

‘Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.’ – √ìscar Arias

‘A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they’re dragging behind them.’ – Debbie Ford

‘If you have been suffering with physical ailments or even a spiritual emptiness, I want to share with you what I know to be true: The more love and reverence you give your body, the better you will feel.’ – Debbie Ford

‘Nothing seemed more important to me than to make the world aware of the senseless death and starvation in South Sudan. I wanted people to see through the eyes of the suffering so my photos might motivate the international community to act.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.’ – Phil Klay

‘If you’re going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.’ – Phil Klay

‘I don’t think I’m yet peaceful because I have to struggle every day within myself when I see the suffering of the people of the world, the women and the children. And fury sets in. But I have to transform that and take it out and do something positive with it – but I have to do that sometimes minute to minute.’ – Betty Williams

‘I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public – that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.’ – John Gurdon

‘The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy.’ – Imre Kertesz

‘An independent state does not pay too dear a price for its independence in accepting the sufferings of war when it cannot avoid them; a state which has lost its independence may find at least some compensation in the fact that its protector procures for it peace with its neighbours.’ – Theodor Mommsen

‘I was struck after 9/11 by what seemed the assumption that everyone bereaved by that event was suffering the same thing. I wanted to explore how individual grief is, how complicated, how colored by the complexity of the mourner’s relationship with the person who’s died.’ – Sue Miller

‘The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.’ – Eugene Kennedy

‘However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opportunity, while subsidies for the rich result in more private jets and yachts. Would we rather subsidize opportunity or yachts? Which kind of subsidies deserve more scrutiny?’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘I was suffering a divorce, and I was very unhappy because my children were very young. It hit me when a woman, a fan, was chatting with me. She was pleased to meet Big Bird because her children liked him and liked the show, but she didn’t know that my face was streamed with tears.’ – Caroll Spinney

‘My dad was a terrible father. Dreadful. But he had a very difficult childhood. He was fostered – he never knew who his father was. So he had a very different attitude to family and kids. I don’t have any issues. I’m not suffering some secret angst.’ – Mark Billingham

‘There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That’s obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions.’ – Dambisa Moyo

‘Although attracted by the humanities, I had chosen medicine as a career, seduced by the image of the ‘man in white’ dispensing care and solace to the suffering. But science was lurking around the corner, in the form of an unpaid student assistantship in the laboratory of physiology.’ – Christian de Duve

‘A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life – to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom – will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.’ – Ellen Key

‘Depression is a devastating illness, causing great suffering in the afflicted and anxiety to their nearest and dearest: it can hit at any age.’ – John Cornwell

‘I think many times news organizations, whether it’s for lack of resources or something else, cover the headlines and don’t follow up, even though the story continues for the people living there – they can’t leave. I think it’s critical that they do these follow-up stories to realize that there is still suffering, and the need is dire.’ – Carol Guzy

‘A person who’s only suffering can’t write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.’ – Edward Hirsch

‘Money in property is dead money. It doesn’t help the country. It’s funny how the U.K., Ireland and Spain are the most property-obsessed nations in Europe and yet are also the ones suffering the most.’ – Peter Hargreaves

‘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.’ – Mary Ellen Chase

‘On the question of comfort women, when my thought goes to these people, who have been victimized by human trafficking and gone through immeasurable pain and suffering beyond description, my heart aches. And on this point, my thought has not changed at all from previous prime ministers.’ – Shinzo Abe

‘I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.’ – Shinzo Abe

”The Big Girls’ has always seemed to me to be a story about different kinds of families – a divorced mother with a child; a father with his child and his girlfriend; a mother of three children, suffering from postpartum depression; and the rigid artificial families maintained by women in prison – all potentially perilous.’ – Susanna Moore

‘Though sporting a hideous mustache is in no way comparable to the physical pain and mental suffering men with these diseases endure, Movember still forces participants to challenge their manhood on a daily basis. Growing a moustache for men’s cancer isn’t as feel-good an activity as running a marathon for a cure.’ – David Sax

‘A proper respect for nature means that you can’t pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.’ – Jay Parini

‘I suspect that a huge amount of the anxiety and suffering that we see around can be closely traced to our wanton misuse of our resources. Just look at any garbage dump and see what is wasted. In a sense, we’ve wasted our souls.’ – Jay Parini

‘Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more days a week appeared to nearly halve their risk of suffering a heart attack compared with women who ate one serving or less per week.’ – Michael Greger

‘When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.’ – Monica Bellucci

‘I’ve seen my own blood and broken a few bones. I’ve been hit, which isn’t an entirely bad thing, as at least you have a glimpse of the suffering endured by the people you are photographing. And in a sense, crumbling empires and war have been with me all my life.’ – Don McCullin

‘Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn’t know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.’ – Garry Shandling

‘I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I’m happy. And they hate it when they know that I’m suffering because someone has hurt me.’ – Shakira

‘We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it worth living – the only thing that makes it possible to get up in the morning and go on living – is play.’ – Brian Sutton-Smith

‘In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.’ – Tariq Ali

‘Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I’ve got.’ – John Tavener

‘The town of Gauley Bridge stands as a pattern for all those places where people are linked even in the middle of their suffering, where people fight against an evil condition so that other people need not go through the same fight.’ – Muriel Rukeyser

‘There are just way too many people suffering out there.’ – Tom Perez

‘BioViva is trying to help improve human health and wellbeing, and alleviate suffering. We are not trying to determine who should live or die. Everyone has a right to life without suffering.’ – Liz Parrish

‘Barring public demand, any person who pursues the presidency out of personal ambition must be suffering from a basic genetic defect.’ – Miriam Defensor-Santiago

‘In the late ’70s, the conditions that bands had to endure were, shall we say, not as civilized as they are today. People were a lot more aggressive back then. So there was definitely a lot of suffering for your art. But I would argue that was a good thing. Generally, people make better music when they suffer.’ – Peter Hook

‘You’re always asking yourself, are you doing the best for your child? And other parents let you know if you’re not, just not in a direct way. There’s a sense of competition, which is ridiculous because you know deep down you’re all suffering.’ – Tom Ellis

‘I would like to learn more about what I can do for my hair, because I think I don’t really know; my poor hair is suffering because of my lack of knowledge.’ – Miesha Tate

‘In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering.’ – Theresa May

‘The right place for a person suffering a mental health crisis is a bed, not a police cell. And the right people to look after them are medically trained professionals, not police officers.’ – Theresa May

‘Though Africa is not responsible for emitting greenhouse gases, it is suffering the consequences of climate change.’ – Francois Hollande

‘I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can’t for a moment be equal to the suffering you’ve caused.’ – Ingmar Bergman

‘The majority people in this country are suffering because of our membership of the E.U.’ – Michael Gove

‘Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.’ – Christy Turlington

‘I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It’s one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, ‘surreal.” – Paul Muldoon

‘I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I’ve been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found ‘Restrepo’ to be unbelievably useful.’ – Damian Lewis

‘Whether or not one has won the Nobel Prize, each of us living in contact with our fellowmen feels a joint responsibility for all forms of suffering, both physical and moral.’ – Dominique Pire

‘My earnestness at the injustices I witnessed when I was writing ‘Random Family’ may have been my gravest reportorial offense during the early years of reporting. When I discuss the book with students, they often ask me how I could ‘stand by’ in the face of so much suffering; the egregiousness wasn’t my powerlessness but my surprise.’ – Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

‘Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.’ – Jeff Fortenberry

‘From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.’ – Mother Angelica

‘St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten anyone. He realized that when the Christian saw the blessings and grace that poured upon him after his trials, he would gain courage to suffer in his turn.’ – Mother Angelica

‘It’s not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label ‘manic-depressive,’ but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.’ – Patty Duke

‘I think we are definitely suffering from an information overload, but I believe that there is going to be better and better ways of organizing that information and processing it so that it will enhance your daily life.’ – Anne Wojcicki

‘Israeli suffering has to be understood.’ – Mauricio Macri

‘History is with us until we learn from the suffering of the past.’ – Roger Rees

‘We need our children in Jamaica – especially those suffering with dyslexia, autism, cerebral palsy – to get more attention.’ – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

‘My belief is that when the military is used as the sole instrument of power, that never has a good outcome. If there’s no one to take ownership and develop that failed state, human suffering can be even worse than that created by the conflict itself.’ – Martin Dempsey

‘I always say now it’s the indifference that kills patients in the field and different populations. We have to break our indifference towards the suffering of people elsewhere.’ – Joanne Liu

‘You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.’ – Petina Gappah

‘I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.’ – John Forbes Nash, Jr.

‘We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates international headlines, but children in Niger suffering from drought and children in Britain suffering from leukaemia go unnoticed.’ – David Harewood

‘American folk songs were about tragedy, right? They were about suffering and tragedy, and a lot of my songs are about that, even though they were misunderstood.’ – John Mellencamp

‘You get annoyed about things in real life, and then the tragic thing is that while you are moaning on the awful injustice and suffering of something, something grimly comic will then strike you about it, like a parasite feeding off the misery of the world.’ – Stewart Lee

‘What problem does Pan-Asianism attempt to solve? The problem is how to terminate the sufferings of the Asiatic peoples and how to resist the aggression of the powerful European countries. In a word, Pan-Asianism represents the cause of the oppressed Asiatic peoples.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘Most humbly, my beloved Saviour, I bow myself before thee. I am a worm and no man. I alone deserve to suffer. I alone shrink from suffering. I was with thee in thy days of joy, singing ‘Hosanna,’ and I wished to make thee King. Now, in thine hour of suffering, I am far from thee.’ – Vincent McNabb

‘The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live – live a complete life – live all our life.’ – Emile Zola

‘Every time I go to Africa, I feel like I hit true north. There is a depth of feeling that I have for the continent, in the richness of the people, the suffering , but also the transcendent joy that is there – it’s like nowhere else on the planet.’ – David Oyelowo

‘Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one’s own life.’ – Scott Derrickson

‘Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that’s not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They’re motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.’ – Cass Sunstein

‘Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you’re there. When I’m interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.’ – Tim Ryan

‘There is no way Israel will deal with the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not understand the suffering of the Jewish people.’ – Daniel Barenboim

‘It’s a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.’ – Eddie Marsan

‘When you watch ‘Ray Donovan,’ you think that it’s about Hollywood, about scandal, about stars, and about trying to keep secrets. That’s true, but that’s also just the means by which you reveal secrets of the people suffering every day life.’ – Eddie Marsan

‘I believe Jews are compassionate people because of what we’ve suffered. We must not put that suffering onto others.’ – Miriam Margolyes

‘As a Colombian, the only way I can relate to my country is through suffering. I hope that my children and my grandchildren will relate to the beautiful country in a way that it is positive and loving.’ – Ingrid Betancourt

‘His work isn’t all glower. Even though he hasn’t smiled in a movie since the underrated ‘Proof’ in the early 1990s, Mr. Crowe is given to a hurt swallow when he’s uncomfortable and to a look of suffering in his eyes.’ – Elvis Mitchell

‘This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.’ – Campbell Brown

‘I’m learning how to prevent my brain from getting worse than it is after suffering a career worth of concussions playing football.’ – Terry Bradshaw

‘Expanded credit access has helped households maintain living standards when suffering job loss, illness, or other unexpected contingencies.’ – Janet Yellen

‘War is a tragedy. It’s not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody’s a victim, from the one who’s suffering pain to the person inflicting it.’ – Edgar Ramirez

‘I think that female roles, they can be victims, they can be sympathetic, they can be in pain, they can be in suffering – but they can’t be ugly. I think there’s so much fear surrounding that, that it makes a film unlikeable, that it won’t sell.’ – Rebecca Hall

‘I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she’s made and obviously wanting more. It’s classic.’ – Parker Posey

‘To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.’ – Craig Sager

‘Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy from the unborn, and ignore the suffering of the mothers, then we are signing our own death warrants.’ – Alveda King

‘Forced labor affects the most vulnerable and least protected people, perpetuating a vicious cycle of poverty and dependency. Women, low-skilled migrant workers, children, indigenous peoples, and other groups suffering discrimination on different grounds are disproportionately affected.’ – Wagner Moura

‘Ted Cruz, who uses phrases like ‘carpet-bombing’ the people of ISIS and who said, after the incidents in Paris, that we need a war president, is using fear mongering and hate speech. As a citizen of the world, I’m very concerned that this kind of behavior is being cheered on by anyone. It only brings more pain and suffering.’ – Mandy Patinkin

‘Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.’ – Mandy Patinkin

‘Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan – to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?’ – Pat Buchanan

‘Trump is part of the reason you are suffering. Trump is the one playing on the not-so-level playing field where he wins and you lose.’ – Bob Beckel

‘As a singer, I’ve been criticized for sounding feminine. They say I don’t belong in any category, male or female, pop or jazz. But early on, I saw my suffering as my salvation.’ – Jimmy Scott

‘When we forgive someone, it doesn’t excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it’s in our own self-interest.’ – Dean Ornish

‘In a global economy, the Bush doctrine of unilateralism – going it alone – has been disastrous. It’s becoming increasingly clear that we’re all in this together. Your happiness is my happiness, your suffering is my suffering, your recession is my recession.’ – Dean Ornish

‘The incorrect supposition that we live in a world of scarce resources has done more than preclude most individuals from achieving economic success. Over the centuries, this zero-sum-game view of the world has been responsible for wars, revolutions, political strategies, and human suffering of unfathomable proportions.’ – Paul Zane Pilzer

‘It’s very unfortunate to see the amount of obstruction the Democrats have put forward. There has not been a point since the beginning of President Trump’s term that they have said, ‘Let’s come to the table. Let’s work with you.’ Even when they see their own constituents suffering because of their failing healthcare.’ – Ronna McDaniel

‘I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.’ – Tionne Watkins

‘I want people to help take care of each other at work. That’s what I want. Do you know how many hours we spend at work? We spend more time at work than we spend at home. When people are suffering, we don’t help enough.’ – Sheryl Sandberg

‘In my heart, I know that Jesus would never condone the suffering that results when dogs and cats are allowed to breed.’ – Joanna Krupa

‘By any objective standard, Joaquin Guzman Loera is an evil man who has caused untold suffering for others.’ – Don Winslow

‘Many people are allergic to process and structure because it causes traumatic flashbacks of working at BigCo and suffering through bureaucracy for bureaucracy’s sake.’ – Christine Tsai

‘Our friends on the other side decided early on they didn’t want to engage with us in a serious way, a serious way to help those suffering under Obamacare.’ – Mitch McConnell

‘You can really examine the suffering and consequences that happen when there’s a loss in a family.’ – Taylor Sheridan

‘In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling ‘Sicario’ to constant and resounding ‘no’s. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.’ – Taylor Sheridan

‘If I’m awake at 2 A.M., I’m either suffering from anxiety or doing something I will regret tomorrow.’ – Erin Foster

‘It is our belief that nations should embrace dialogue and peaceful settlement of disputes instead of rushing to arms, for suffering and bloodshed will ensue.’ – Mwai Kibaki

‘I’ve seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people’s suffering.’ – Jimmy Gomez

‘In high school, you at least have to get up at a reasonable hour and show up at places on time. College, on the other hand, gave me the sense that I could complete major assignments at 2 A.M. without suffering any repercussions, along with the erroneous idea that in real life, things started after one in the afternoon.’ – Alexandra Petri

‘The arts are suffering amongst public schools, but also, minority theater companies are struggling, and I firmly believe in freedom of expression through the arts.’ – Nelsan Ellis

‘Is it crazy that George Bush, ex-President of America, now paints pictures of dogs? Tiny, little, nice pictures of dogs, after all the suffering that he caused? That’s crazy that he’s doing that!’ – Toby Regbo

‘Blockchain startups are suffering from a crippling, archaic, and antiquated state regulatory system – and it’s driving innovation abroad. Many blockchain start-ups trigger or may trigger money transmitter laws and regulations.’ – Perianne Boring

‘Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.’ – Yitzhak Shamir

‘I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, ‘Help me,’ and wanting to slide down in the seat of my car because it felt like I was invading their suffering. But I also know that our being there gave them a voice.’ – David Muir

‘You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life – suffering, horror, love, loss, hate – all of it.’ – Harry Dean Stanton

‘I think it’s a shame that the day somebody hears about a shooting, the first thing they think about is, ‘How can I go promote my gun control agenda?’ as opposed to saying, ‘How do I go pray and help the families that are suffering?” – Steve Scalise

‘I thought about all those people whose suffering had been erased, and I thought, ‘Why can’t they speak? Why can’t I undo some of that erasure?” – Jesmyn Ward

‘Sometimes you can publish a first novel in a kind of lyrical flourish, but it is not really a lyrical form. The beautiful truths about the world are more hard won than that. Novels should be bleach boned. It’s a question of cumulative observation and lived suffering. It takes time.’ – Lawrence Osborne

‘Like the suffering child, gang members act out of their despair, and their actions are all the more alarming now for our not having heeded their cry long ago. The shortsighted neglect that keeps us locked up in our outrage has also kept us from viable solutions.’ – Greg Boyle

‘We’re in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we’re suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.’ – Fat Joe

‘For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.’ – Andre Aciman

‘We used to call them the storm of the century but now we’re seeing what happens if we don’t act fast enough – and real human beings are suffering because of that.’ – Dean Devlin

‘In our culture, I feel like everyone just wants the good life, the dream life, but I’m learning to embrace suffering because with suffering there’s so much good that comes out of it.’ – Danny Gokey

‘Musicians keep playing when the lights go out, when people are suffering, confused, or angry.’ – Stephen Hough

‘The truth is I was suffering from bipolar disorder. It went on for 18 months, during which I changed four doctors, the medication wasn’t working on me, and crazy things were happening.’ – Yo Yo Honey Singh

‘North Korea is not the dictator’s country; it’s 25 million citizens’ country, and they are suffering under the dictator. North Koreans are really nice, kind, pure people. I hate the dictator and the regime, but I love my home country.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘There are people who are destined to embrace endless pain and suffering, and there are people who desire to dream. Everybody dreams, of course. But does anybody desperately want to dream more than the people of North Korea?’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘As a child, every North Korean is very happy. We were very happy because we learned horrible things about the outside world, like in America and Japan. We thought they were suffering; that’s why we were very happy… but in reality, we were living under fear.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘I think it’s possible that China is ready for a serious change regarding its North Korean defector policy. Chinese people are starting to realize that so many defectors have been suffering in China, and it doesn’t have to be this way.’ – Lee Hyeon-seo

‘It’s very important that we do show appreciation for those who go to work in raising awareness. You know, Tourette Syndrome is not well known. There’s not a lot of government money and research in it. But people are dying inside every day because they’re suffering with it, and I think word needs to get out.’ – Dash Mihok

‘I have two children of my own; I can’t imagine anything more horrific than to have a child suffering with EB.’ – Ian Ziering

‘Rock music has always embraced – and even represented – rebellion, rowdiness, and a robust disdain for social decorum. But along with more classical art forms like theater, opera, and the symphony, it’s suffering from the distracted, smartphone-carrying audiences of the digital age.’ – Elizabeth Flock

‘Pain – that is what life is about, isn’t it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.’ – Julian Barratt

‘Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I’m most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art is a noble thing; suffering is such a small price to pay for the imagination.’ – Hilton Als

‘Saying, ‘I’m going to create jobs’ is great, but before you create jobs, something has to be offered to alleviate some of the suffering now.’ – Lynn Nottage

‘The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people.’ – Guy Standing

‘For pity’s sake, if you don’t take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it’s not the author’s fault. It’s yours.’ – Lionel Shriver

‘Suffering does not change its face.’ – Peter Maurer

‘We still have a strong commitment to our original mission, which is to protect and assist people who are suffering from the impact of violence, but the violence has changed its character, format, and pattern so that we are now responding year after year.’ – Peter Maurer

‘The principal cause of suffering during humanitarian crises is insufficient respect of applicable rules of international humanitarian law.’ – Peter Maurer

‘In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of today are just a flick of a switch away. In our homes, on the train, in our coffee shops, we see it, we feel it, we know about it. All of us. All of the time. Human suffering is visible, constantly.’ – Peter Maurer

‘Every day, we hear of civilians being killed and wounded in violation of the basic rules of international humanitarian law and with total impunity. Instability is spreading. Suffering is growing. No country can remain untouched.’ – Peter Maurer

‘We want to let people know that we can build solidarity with suffering folks so that they are not excluded, they are integrated.’ – Blase J. Cupich

‘The GAVI Alliance has achieved many things in its first dozen years, but none more important than helping save more than 5.5 million lives and prevent untold illness and suffering.’ – Seth Berkley

‘Look at the world, all the suffering… Being under house arrest is the least I can sacrifice.’ – Asma Jahangir

‘That all-too-common gap – between where the doctors, facilities and resources are based and where the individuals suffering from HIV live – had to be closed. This is what the Health Extension Program (HEP) was created to do.’ – Tedros Adhanom

‘We need a new order of ministers to stand in pulpits. It’s not enough to sing and praise God in worship services. Any religion that doesn’t encourage us to work together to end the needless suffering all around us is godless.’ – Susan L. Taylor

‘When you’re the good guy in a horror film, you’re usually suffering a lot throughout the entire thing.’ – Lauren Ashley Carter

‘Empathy should not be contingent on our proximity to suffering or the likelihood of it happening to us. Rather, it should stem from a disdain that suffering is happening at all.’ – Clint Smith

‘Are businesses really benefitting if their communities are suffering? It doesn’t seem like it.’ – Punit Renjen

‘So much of Judaism is about suffering, survival, and pathos.’ – Bryan Fogel

‘Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or thinking about how others might be suffering similarly.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘I come from a family where happiness was seen as an ‘extra,’ a kind of frill to life – nice to have, but certainly not necessary and by no means paramount. Work was king. Suffering meant you were working hard. It made you worthy.’ – Rachel Simmons

‘Hard work enables us to improve ourselves and the world around us, to combat injustice, reduce suffering, and increase human freedom.’ – Joe Lonsdale

‘Pain is mandatory for all of us. It’s what teaches us. Suffering is what’s optional. That’s what happens when we try to skip over the pain.’ – Glennon Doyle Melton

‘Clearly, the oil spill in the Gulf is a terrible tragedy; we lost 11 lives on the rig, and their families are suffering, and it’s also an economic tragedy for our state and ecological tragedy for the Gulf. But Sept. 11 was a different type of event: it was an intentional attack on soil.’ – Charles Boustany

‘When I was suffering with depression, people weren’t talking about depression. It had a stigma.’ – Jennifer Holliday

‘The Batman that I loved growing up, the thing that Frank Miller did in ‘The Dark Knight Returns,’ is that he’s so vulnerable and mortal in his 50s. That book was the first time I saw Batman as being really layered, human, and suffering, and worried that he wouldn’t achieve what he wanted to achieve. Seeing him being obsessed and pathological.’ – Scott Snyder

‘As Christians, we are responsible for our fellow brothers and sisters suffering and fighting for the basic resources we all need to survive. To deny this is to turn a deaf ear to God’s teachings.’ – Catherine Cortez-Masto

”Sons of the Prophet’ is a dark comedy about human suffering. The play explores the particularly messy portions of life – the times where you find yourself coping with multiple life issues, and before any of them can be resolved, two more show up on your plate. We’ve all been there, I’d wager.’ – Stephen Karam

‘At any one particular time, there is something in my life that is suffering as a result of my many responsibilities; most of the time, it’s me.’ – Ory Okolloh

‘I want the other Victorias out there, the people that are suffering or going through something, to keep fighting.’ – Victoria Arlen

‘Please continue to pray for and bring attention to those suffering in the ongoing Ebola crisis in West Africa.’ – Kent Brantly

‘There are a lot of health care providers in this country who have a very deep sense of service and compassion for the suffering of others, who are motivated to go to West Africa despite the risks of infection and death. And doctors and nurses face those risks every day regardless of their setting.’ – Kent Brantly

‘Losing so many patients certainly was difficult, but it didn’t make me feel like a failure as a physician, because I had learned that there was so much more to being a physician than curing illness. That’s not the most important thing we do. The most important thing we do is enter into the suffering of others.’ – Kent Brantly

‘People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of propaganda, they don’t know what’s happening inside their borders or outside of them. By increasing their seclusion, sanctions make it easier for dictators to blame external enemies for a country’s suffering.’ – Jacob Weisberg

‘I was raised to believe that other people’s suffering was my responsibility.’ – George C. Wolfe

‘I want to listen to people’s stories and find strength in them. There is so much human-caused pain and suffering in the world. I want to honor all those difficult experiences and acknowledge their aftermath. At the same time, I want to really see and love the world around me.’ – Clemantine Wamariya

‘The idea of somebody suffering is really painful to every human. In our collective language, we all too often see those who are suffering as a victim to be pitied, to be feared, and even sometimes to be despised. I want to redirect that narrative.’ – Clemantine Wamariya

‘Even if you can’t afford to buy a painting, you can experience it. You can go see the Mona Lisa and be transported. You can see the discipline and suffering in a van Gogh.’ – Adrien Brody

‘No child, through her own will, can pull a mother out of her suffering, and as an adult, I have been very busy.’ – Sheila Heti