Suffering Quotes

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full" "A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears" "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality" "I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering." "When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help." "It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love." "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer." "The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people." "Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering" "The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers." "Suffering is civilization" "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." "Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart." "What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love." "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering" "People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." "Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact." "The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder" "We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love."