Suffering Quotes

We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.

~ Elie Wiesel

In the preshent human condition, pain is unavoidable. As long as you inhabit a physical body, you have to experience pain from time to time. Suffering is of a different nature. It is a reaction of the manas/mind that magnifies the pain and adds various emotional frills and thrills to it. In many cases, pain is only transient; but if one wishes, one can always add to it and suffer more - there is no limit.

~ Samuel Sagan

No other creature on the face of this planet inflicts more suffering than humans.

~ Mischa Temaul

You reach a point where the pain gets so acute you do not feel it anymore, but to reach that point, you experience so much pain that you're unable to forget the suffering that led you there.

~ Christopher Rees

I can see her struggling to find the right word. Death seems so harsh. Passing so oblique. Some things are beyond words, I suppose, and she never finishes the statement. It seems right, that her words should fall into oblivion; after all, she—like me, like everyone—has no words for what follows, for the unknowable, only her hopes and prayers and an unwavering faith in something more.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

And it seemed as though for a moment, the world encapsulated them in a giant sigh. As if the world was exhausted by humanity—by the bellows of war and bullets, of hateful cries and grieving tears. Of all the pain, the endless pain humanity had brought into its peaceful existence. A great heaving sigh to wash it all away. But like the sea, when washed away, war only crashed harder, a surging line of arched backs and brackish tears.

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.

~ Dean Koontz

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

~ Criss Jami

If we can prevent just one marriage from disintegrating--or just one child from suffering the loss of a family--our effort will be justified.

~ James C. Dobson

Some people are married to ideas that they do not love, ideas that do not love them in return. They are married to ideas they do not sleep with, ideas that rob them of their sleep.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

How odd that we spend so much time treating the darkness, and so little time seeking the light. The ego loves to glorify itself by self-analysis, yet we do not get rid of darkness by hitting it with a baseball bat. We only get rid of darkness by turning on the light.

~ Marianne Williamson

Suffering awakes the spirit within.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.

~ Stephen Richards

You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

The heart is where the journey of forgiveness begins.

~ Stephen Richards

Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.

~ Stephen Richards

The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards

The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.

~ Stephen Richards

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

~ Stephen Richards

Forgiveness does not change the past, that’s for sure, but it does change the future.

~ Stephen Richards

The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.

~ Stephen Richards

The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.

~ Stephen Richards

When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.

~ Stephen Richards

In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.

~ Stephen Richards

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

~ Stephen Richards

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

~ Stephen Richards

Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word ‘give’ is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.

~ Stephen Richards

The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.

~ Stephen Richards

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.

~ Stephen Richards

Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.

~ Stephen Richards

We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!

~ Stephen Richards

Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.

~ Stephen Richards

Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.

~ Stephen Richards

Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

~ Stephen Richards

The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.

~ Stephen Richards

Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.

~ Stephen Richards

In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.

~ Stephen Richards

The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.

~ Stephen Richards

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

~ Stephen Richards

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

~ Stephen Richards