Quotes About Suffering

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

It's hard for black women to ask for help. We think we don't need it. We're used to being in pain and living with it.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

Nature endows woman alternately with a particular strength which helps her to suffer and a weakness which counsels her to be resigned.

I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.

Laborin' man an' laborin' woman Hev one glory an' one shame; Ev'y thin' thet' s done inhuman Injers all on 'em the same.

Think of all the human suffering caused by the sad truth that beautiful sexy women or handsome Porsche-owning men often prove to have miserable genes for other traits

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women.

The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them always.

Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.

Afghan women, as a group, I think their suffering has been equaled by very few other groups in recent world history.

All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.

Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other.

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

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.

Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property.

you have not a boat of your own, that is just it; that is what women always suffer from; they have to steer, but the craft is some one else's, and the haul too.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

The pleasing punishment that women bear.

I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.