1. Home
    2.  › 
  2. Quotes tagged “Suffering”

Quotes tagged “Suffering”

“Suffering isn’t valuable. It’s just suffering, nothing more and nothing less, sometimes necessary and sometimes not. It is bad to suffer for no reason. It’s better not to suffer. And it’s bad for our character: suffering can make us smaller people, less generous, less kind, more fearful, more angry.”
— B.D. McClay, My Daily Pills
Tagged: Depression, Antidepressants, Mental Health, Suffering
“There was too much money to be made off her suffering.”
— Wesley Morris, The New York Times Presents, Season 1: Framing Britney Spears
Tagged: Money, Suffering, Paparazzi
“I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.”
— David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Tagged: Tired, hurt, Suffering, Torn, Confused, Deep Thoughts
“If we feel and learn nothing from the tragedies of the past, then we'll never know how to truly help avoid those same tragedies in the future. Certainly, we can't avoid all pain and suffering, but we can and should learn from it.”
— Rush Limbaugh, Rush Revere and the Brave PIlgrims
Tagged: Tragedies, Pain, Suffering
“One of the ways that people refuse responsibility is by subscribing to the belief that their suffering shouldn't be happening.”
— Sheryl Paul MA, The Wisdom of Anxiety
Tagged: Suffering, Anxiety
“Lucky Day: Wherever there is injustice, you will find us.

Ned Nederlander: Wherever there is suffering, we'll be there.

Dusty Bottoms: Wherever liberty is threatened, you will find...

Lucky Day, Ned Nederlander, Dusty Bottoms: The Three Amigos!”
— Lucky Day, ¡Three Amigos!
Tagged: Liberty, Suffering, Injustice
“I should be ashamed of myself to take such delight in the suffering of others.”
— Grace Marks, Alias Grace, Season 1: Part 1
Tagged: Ashamed, delight, Suffering
“And as we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian it was over now and everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus, I couldn't speak anyway. I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn't. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically... disappear.”
— Neil, Mysterious Skin
Tagged: Grief, Suffering, fucked-up, coming of age movies
“Evil is the worship of suffering for the sake of suffering.”
— Jordan B. Peterson, Aubrey Marcus Podcast | #155 Truth and Responsibility with Jordan Peterson
Tagged: Evil, Suffering
“My core goal as an artist is to deconstruct the idea of working, of effort because we are raised to believe that great works of art require suffering.”
— Dimo, Documentary Now!, Season 3: Waiting for the Artist
Tagged: goal, Art, Artist, Effort, Suffering, Work
“But we never really allow space for the stories of Palestinians seeking safety and sanctuary to be uplifted. And to me, it is the dehumanization and the silencing of a particular pain and suffering of people, should not be OK and normal. And you can’t be in the practice of humanizing and uplifting the suffering of one, if you’re not willing to do that for everyone.”
— Ilhan Omar, What Did Ilhan Omar Say?
Tagged: Palestinians, Pain, Suffering, The Squad
“I came here to live a life, fully, all of it and I'll take it. I'll take all of it. I'll take the whole thing. Because I don't want to miss it. I don't want to have come all this distance to live a human life and miss the experience. I just wanna show up for the whole ride.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Oprah's Super Soul Conversations
Tagged: Life, The ride never dies, Suffering
“You shall pay, black prince. I shall place a curse of suffering on you that will doom you to a living hell. I curse you with my name. You shall be...Blacula!”
— Dracula, Blacula
Tagged: Curse, Suffering, dracula
“Dee Dee Blanchard: My mama used to say, 'Sometimes the only way out of the fire is through it.'

Mel: What's that mean?

Dee Dee Blanchard: I used to think it meant you have to be brave, but then I realized she meant you have to suffer. You'll learn more from it.”
— Dee Dee Blanchard, The Act, Season 1: Stay Inside
Tagged: Immolation, Bravery, Suffering, Learning
“We need to strengthen our foundation of joy and happiness before focusing on our suffering.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh—Twitter
Tagged: Joy, Happiness, Suffering
“If you are suffering during meditation, your practice is not correct. Practice should be enjoyable and pleasant. It should be full of joy.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Thich Nhat Hanh—Twitter
Tagged: Suffering, meditation, Joy
“Sometimes “Proof” is just another word for letting people suffer.”
— Malcolm Gladwell, Revisionist History Season 3 Episode 2
Tagged: Proof, Suffering, Football, Podcast Quote
“The guy Dad sold your car to
comes back to get his money,

leaves the car. With filthy rags
we rub it down until it doesn’t shine

and wipe your blood into
the seams of the seat.

Each snowflake stirs before
lifting into the sky as I

learn you won’t be dead.
The unsuffering ends

when the mess of your head
pulls together around

a bullet in your mouth.
You spit it into Dad’s gun

before arriving in the driveway
while the evening brightens

and we pour bag after bag
of leaves on the lawn,

waiting for them to leap”
— Matt Rasmussen, Reverse Suicide
Tagged: Poetry, The Slowdown, snowflake, Suffering, Bullet
“Sensual pleasure is our biological reward for taking care of ourselves.”
— Linda Bacon, Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Tagged: Pleasure, eating, Sex, Struggle, Suffering, Working Out
“Pain, suffering, death I feel. Something terrible has happened. Young Skywalker is in pain. Terrible pain.”
— Yoda (voice), Star Wars: Episode II- Attack of the Clones
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, Death

Featured Posts

50 Paulo Coelho Quotes That Will Soothe Your Aching Soul 24 'Stranger Things' Quotes To Help Hold You Over Until The Second Season Pick Up Lines For Girls 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature 18 Grey's Anatomy Quotes That Were All Too Real For Television 50 Quotes That Prove It Takes Strength To Let Your Vulnerable Side Show

About The Authors

This page was created by our editorial team. Each page is manually curated, researched, collected, and issued by our staff writers. Quotes contained on this page have been double checked for their citations, their accuracy and the impact it will have on our readers.

Kelly Peacock is an accomplished poet and social media expert based in Brooklyn, New York. Kelly has a Bachelor's degree in creative writing from Farieligh Dickinson University and has contributed to many literary and cultural publications. Kelly assists on a wide variety of quote inputting and social media functions for Quote Catalog. Visit her personal website here.

Kendra Syrdal is a writer, editor, partner, and senior publisher for The Thought & Expression Company. Over the last few years she has been personally responsible for writing, editing, and producing over 30+ million pageviews on Thought Catalog.