Mahatma Gandhi Suffering Quotations

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him.

Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering.

Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.

A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death.

There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering.

Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering.

For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour.

India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

True suffering does not know itself and never calculates.

We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

Nations are born out of travail and suffering

The only way love punishes in by suffering.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.

My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.

Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal.