Suffering Quotes

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

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Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

Janet Fitch

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I had to go on without my mother, even though I was suffering terribly, grieving her.

Cheryl Strayed

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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

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I've seen suffering first-hand, and we have to make sure we relieve people's suffering.

Jimmy Gomez

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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

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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

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

Helen Keller

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In my heart, I know that Jesus would never condone the suffering that results when dogs and cats are allowed to breed.

Joanna Krupa

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To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Gwen John

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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

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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

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To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Jessica Lange

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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

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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

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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

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There are millions of Americans who are suffering from chronic pain.

Jennifer Grey

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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

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All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.

Bodhidharma

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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

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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

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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

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Experience is the extract of suffering.

Arthur Helps

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

Elfriede Jelinek

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