Suffering Quotes

Though fervent was our vow,Though ruddily ran our pleasure,Bliss has fulfilled its measure,And sees ...

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Her experience had been of a kind to teach her, rightly or wrongly, that the doubtful honor of a bri...

To know the Cross is not merely to know our own sufferings. For the Cross is the sign of salvation, ...

The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But afte...

But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain...

If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at ob...

As long as some sufferThe River Flows ForeverAs long as there is painThe River Flows ForeverAs stron...

Suffering is the condition on which we live. And when it comes you know it. You know it as the truth...

An Odonian’s goal is positive, not negative. Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning ...

I'm afraid of life! There are times I--I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial. And yet, I...

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

People talked so foolishly, I thought, about the ennobling effects of suffering. No doubt the philos...

You are enjoying the gift of genius. When ordinary people are confronted with multiple tragedies, th...

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had ...

The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not ...

This exists. It can be seen. It can be touched. These in pace, these dungeons, these iron hinges, th...

The soul that loves and suffers is in the sublime state.

That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encoura...

In all Thénardier's outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosio...

The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reve...

When you shall have learned to know, and to love, you will still suffer. The day is born in tears. T...

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ...

As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any...

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we wer...

Injustice in the end produces independence.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering f...

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhapp...

Isn’t it complicated to be human, though?” she said. “Animals seem to give up their lives so natural...

I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other’s is by sympathy, which is suffering ...

To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. B...

Sometimes I knew in all my mind and heard why I had done what I had done, and I welcomed the sacrifi...

If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart...

In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamen...

If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s fac...

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great communi...

[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually...

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont tak...

To put it another way, pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain? Why can't...

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness...

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such ...

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible:From D...

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills ...

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark,And has the nature of infinity.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay d...

Ageing is not easy, Sennhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another...

For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, w...

Insensate cruelty to those you can whip, and grovelling submission to those you can't. Once having s...

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged int...

Ever since the morning, Pierre had beheld many frightful sufferings in that woeful white train. But ...

I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.

"He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our su...

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Wisdom comes through suffering.Trouble, with its memories of pain,Drips in our hearts as we try to s...

Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain

I remember one teacher there -- I can't recall her name now. She was short and spare, and I remember...

Mademoiselle, I speak as a friend. Bury your dead! ... Give up the past! Turn to the future! What is...

Take the Pyramids. Great blocks of useless masonry, put up to minister to the egoism of a despotic b...

Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.

— This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.— Who knows it better?— Yet you believe? Kumalo looked a...

Who taught you all this, doctor?"The reply came promptly:"Suffering.

I know positively… that each of us has the plague within him; no one, no one on earth, is free from ...

Some, often without knowing it, suffered from being deprived of the company of friends and from thei...

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering ...

Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, e...

At such moments the collapse of their courage, willpower, and endurance was so abrupt that they felt...

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffe...

[…] Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not...

The priest gazed around my cell and answered in a voice that sounded very weary to me. 'Every stone ...

Professor Smith has kindly submitted his book to me before publication. After reading it thoroughly ...

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to enc...

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

One is always alone in suffering; the fact is depressing when one happens to be the sufferer, but it...

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishme...

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young p...

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

No wise forward look can ignore the possibility of many sorrows and the certainty of some. Hope has ...

It was a good thing to be an African. There were terrible things that happened in Africa, things tha...

She knew as well as anyone that the world could be a place of trial and sorrow, that there was injus...

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want...

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

Once upon a time there was a child who had a golden brain. His parents only discovered this by chanc...

Life is beautiful. Suffering is due to unconscious following.

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connectio...

Compassion means removal of suffering – suffering of the self and the others.

Yoga is the process of eliminating pain – pain form the body, mind and the society.

One day we took the children to see a goldsmith refine gold after the ancient manner of the East. He...

There is no house of life out of reach of the stream. So, to be surprised when the rain descends and...