Pain And Suffering Quotes - Page 2

• Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

  Eric Maisel

  Pain, Blessing, Suffering

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.123, Penguin

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• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Long Distance Relationship

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by aulo Coelho, 1994.

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• For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Pain, Understanding, Feelings

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• For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Suffering Pain, Strive, Endure

  Thomas Carlyle (1847). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.293

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• You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Happiness, Meaningful

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• Is suffering so very serious? ...I'm referring to the kind of suffering a man inflicts on a woman or a woman on a man. It's extremely painful... hardly bearable. But I very much fear that this sort of pain... is no more worthy of respect than old age or illness.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Pain, Men, Suffering

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Character

  Moon and Sixpence (1919) ch. 17

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• I shall live forever. And I don't mean in a metaphorical sense. I don't mean I'll live forever in the hearts and minds of my readers. I mean I will literally live forever, drawing as I do from your pain and suffering.Your pain makes me strong.

  Derek Landy

  Strong, Pain, Heart

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• My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

  Cheryl Rainfield

  Pain, Self Harm, Will To Survive

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• Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.

  Beth Moore

  Pain, Heart, Soul

  Beth Moore (2008). “To Live Is Christ”, p.80, B&H Publishing Group

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• Although other animals cannot reason nor speak the way humans do, this does not give us the right to do with them as we like. Even though our supposed possession of a soul and superior intelligence are used to create an arbitrary dividing line over rights, the fact remains that all animals have the capacity to experience pain and suffering, and in suffering they are our equals.

  Nathaniel Altman

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• Pause and remember - Making the wrong assumptions causes pain and suffering for everyone.

  Jennifer Young

  Pain, Suffering, Awakening

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• I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.

  Tim Hansel

  Pain, Believe, Joy

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• 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. Art and play.

  Brian Sutton-Smith

  Morning, Art, Pain

  "How Might Video Games Be Good for Us?" by Jane McGonigal, www.bigquestionsonline.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I forget, because it’s hard to realize that the same person who gives you so much love, and to whom you give so much in return, can go through the kinds of pain and suffering that nothing you do can alleviate.

  Esther Earl

  Pain, Giving, Suffering

  Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.216, Penguin UK

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• You have no fixed self. This is only an illusion that causes you to feel pain and suffering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Pain, Yoga

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• Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

  Kami Garcia

  Teaching, Heart, Suffering Pain

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• I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Pain, Suffering, Facts

  Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman (2004). “Scar Tissue”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• True power does not amass through the pain and suffering of others.

  Joy Harjo

  Inspirational, Pain, Suffering Of Others

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• Fear and pain and suffering is not OK for any being to feel intentionally at the hands of us.

  Leona Lewis

  Pain, Hands, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it?

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Pain, Suffering, Demand

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• Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

  Richard Rohr

  Pain, Suffering, Transformed

  Richard Rohr (2004). “Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

  Jud Wilhite

  Pain, Moving, Past

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• Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

  Alan Paton

  Pain, Kindness, Secret

  Alan Paton (2015). “Cry, The Beloved Country”, p.193, Random House

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