Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Suffering Quotes
BlameRevengeSuffering It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Coping MechanismsDarknessResilienceSufferingSuicide It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.
AbsenceDeathPeaceSuffering Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.
Human ConditionMortalityPurposeSuffering No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
CertaintyConsequencePredictionSufferingTruth The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
AwarenessDeceptionIgnoranceSufferingTruth Wisdom Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
IdeologySufferingWar What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
CopingHuman ConditionSubstance UseSuffering Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
AdversityEnduranceIllnessSuffering Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.
ArtCreativityExpressionPainSuffering Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
DespisedGodHumanitySuffering There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!
DivinitySacrificeSinSuffering God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Inner TransformationSelf-DiscoverySpiritual AwakeningSuffering 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.
DogmaFalse SecurityIgnoranceSuffering 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.
ExperienceGrowthSuffering A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
DespairEvilHopeSuffering Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
AgingFrailtySuffering How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
BraveryGrowth Through AdversityPatienceSuffering We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
MeaningSelf-DiscoverySuffering A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.
AnticipationFearPleasurePsychologySuffering If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
MortalityRealismSuffering I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process.