Suffering Quotes

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an...

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

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvi...

The beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle,...

He were found drowned. He were coming home very hopeless o' aught on earth. He thought God could na ...

There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that o...

When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a reali...

It is easy to tell the toiler How best he can carry his packBut no one can rate a burden's weightUnt...

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

I measure every Grief I meetWith narrow, probing, eyes –I wonder if It weighs like Mine –Or has an E...

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're suppo...

Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog ...

No one is ever holy without suffering.

I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contem...

The great strength she had used in the old days to conquer and subdue, to win her will and to defend...

And St. Francis said: 'My dear son, be patient, because the weaknesses of the body are given to us i...

Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of h...

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do an...

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and t...

No man can bear a child's cross.

From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his w...

You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an an...

What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of ...

today we read of Don Quixote with a bitter taste in the mouth, it isalmost an ordeal, which would ma...

It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds - this, and that brief madness of bliss...

It is intoxicating joy for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and to forget himself.

Alas, where in the world have there been greater follies than with the compassionate?And what in the...

It is not so much what people suffer that makes the world mysterious; it is rather how much they mis...

When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in s...

Illness especially, may be a blessed forerunner of the individual’s conversion. Not only does it pre...

Conversion can also occur among those who already have the faith. Christians will become real Christ...

... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and ...

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in...

The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and...

How blissful it is, for one who has nothing. Attainers-of-wisdom are people with nothing. See him su...

Just as a line drawn on water with a stick will quickly vanish and will not last long; even so is hu...

Through the round of many births I roamed without reward, without rest, seeking the house-builder. P...

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opp...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere ...

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that wo...

Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.

I fear you will never arrive at an understanding of God so long as you cannot bring yourself to see ...

How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?”Winston thought. “By making him suffer,” he...

Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about...

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

His face frankly displays his suffering, expressing it with a truly royal simplicity. At such moment...

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder ...

As long as one suffers one lives.

Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel.

Patriotism in America, as I understand it, is a matter of suffering, when the country fails to live ...

How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerl...

At last she sighed."But the most wretched thing — is it not? — is to drag out, as I do, a useless ex...

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish dange...

As night goes round the Earth always there are hundreds of thousands of people who should be sleepin...

It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

What does hanging on a cross for twenty-four hours mean to a man who has no children,' I said, 'espe...

But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can ...

suffering is a misunderstood pain

The reward of suffering is experience.

Don't forget - you're the one who swam across the freezing sea at night.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and ...

As you are all aware, in the course of life we experience many kinds of pain. Pains of the body and ...

If something came out of the deal, it couldn’t make things any worse for us than they already were, ...

Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at l...

We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world--the company of those w...

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that...

I might show it to you, but you'd never see it. The privilege isn't given to every one; it's not env...

I am not afraid,” she said; which seemed quite presumptuous enough.“You are not afraid of suffering?...

Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, o...

Who ain't a slave? Tell me that... I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that eve...

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlis...

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its...

Did you," so he asked him at one time, "did you too learn that secret from the river: that there is ...

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c...

He saw mankind going through life in a childlike manner... which he loved but also despised.... He s...

Thoughts and sorrows seem to have remained on the other side of the mountains. Between tormented men...

No words are adequate for the suffering caused by hunger. To this day I have to show hunger that I e...

For I say there is no other thing that is worse than the sea is for breaking a man, even though he m...

What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Perhaps it is only human nature to inflict suffering on anything that will endure suffering, whether...

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and...

Pale death kicks with impartial foot at the hovels of the poor and the towers of kings.

If God causes you to suffer much, it is a sign that He has great designs for you, and that He certai...

But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It ca...

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own l...

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

If I were to draw, I would apply myself only to studying the form of inanimate objects," I said some...

Why d’you make me suffer?"“Because I love you.”Now it was his turn to get angry. “No, no, you don’t ...

Can it be thattheir prayers and their tears are fruitless? Can it be that love,sacred devoted love, ...

Right, you've got a crooked sort of cross..." He consulted Unfogging the Future. "That means you're ...

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and s...

As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less t...