Quotes About Suffering

I unfortunately do suffer for my art.

I was enrolled in divinity school and thought I was going to become a minister - I'm Episcopalian - but I was disavowed of that notion pretty quickly while working at the hospital. I found myself really unfulfilled by the answers that are traditionally offered to questions of why some people suffer and why others suffer so little.

Fame had brought me so much unhappiness.

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

Of all the unhappiness I went through, you must know I wouldn't live a moment of my life differently for what I have now. Would I do it all again? I wouldn't want to, but if it got me to the same place, yeah, I'd do it. Because I realize now that God would not give more than I could handle.

We become moral when we are unhappy.

When you're unhappy in your marriage, your children are the ones who suffer.

I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about.

We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I'm not, 'Oh, I'm a stand-up who's sad,' but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don't think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.

Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent.

Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

In our fields, on our fishing vessels, in our factories and our homes, there are people deprived of their freedom and trapped in a life of unimaginable suffering.

Every day millions of innocent children around the world experience unimaginable horrors because of war.

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

Only the artists interest me whose hearts beat in unison with the poignant misery of the world. If you have not felt that, you have not lived. Pity is essential.

Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

It is often said that having gone through any kind of suffering tends to makes you appreciate life more and live more in the present. I'm not sure how universal or long-lasting these effects really are.

Pain doesn't have a face and pain doesn't have a certain way of adjusting. Pain is universal.

Jesus had a universal concern for those who suffered that transcended the rules of the ancient world.

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness.