Quotes About Suffering

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

Hunger makes a fool of a man.

There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts.

The cross is a paradoxical religious symbol because it inverts the world's value system with the news that hope comes by way of defeat, that suffering and death do not have the last word, that the last shall be first and the first last.

When Niebuhr thought a little more deeply about Darrow's empathy with black suffering, however, he said, "I suppose it is difficult to escape bitterness when you have eyes to see and heart to feel what others are too blind and too callous to notice."[29]

Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear.

Faith is born out of suffering, and suffering is faith's most powerful contradiction. This is the Christian dilemma. The only meaningful Christian response is to resist unjust suffering and to accept the painful consequence of that resistance.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

I can't bear it, Mr. Herriot. He was like a Christian was that pig, just like a Christian.

Finally they got me in, half lying across the back seat. My face was pressed against the side window and from the outside it must have been a grotesque sight with the nose squashed sideways and a solitary dead-mackerel eye staring sightlessly into the night.

I love you. Is not enough to make up for the pain that never heals and starts again at the slightest word.

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and loss, in order to discover ourselves. Because out of suffering comes the strongest souls.

Without pain, how could you know joy?' You can't feel real joy unless you've felt heartache.

I am broken and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again.

Reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone else

Something else is hurting you but it's easier to pretend it's not. Because, It hurts being the one who loves more.

Hard work will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, you learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice and by design.

I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand their reason for causing me pain. But just understanding does not chase away the hurt.

It hurts too much to love you. But The truth is. It hurts too much not to love you.

Answer me this.... Does the one who is always waiting suffer more than the one who's never waited for anyone?

Sometimes you care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.