Quotes About Suffering

He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.

While there was champagne and oysters at the Ritz, during the occupation much of the city suffered from devastating food shortages and malnutrition, perhaps as many as 20 percent of the inhabitants.

while money couldn't always buy you happiness, a lack of money always brought anguish.

I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

We mustn't settle for a Sunday-school picture of Jesus dressed in a sparkling white robe surrounded by happy children. He was a real person, living in a world of dirt, pain, and frustration.

He loved his family and fellow man, never raised his voice or fists, and was rewarded with a lifelong, routine digestion of small doses of humiliation.

Near the end they give you morphine. I'm looking forward to that." Serge turned another page. "You might want to bottle some of that excess ambition for the afterlife.

Terence Trent D'Arby was dead. He watched his suffering as he died a noble death. After intense pain I meditated for a new spirit, a new will, a new identity.

If I could've had the things that Americans throw away, I never would've escaped North Korea. That's how much we were desperate.

I'm extremely grateful I was born in North Korea. If that didn't happen, there's no way I could understand other people's pain.

There's nothing I did wrong. I was just born in North Korea, and that was my crime.

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

I ain't never had nothing good in life.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

You can only get hurt so much before you get numb.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

All of Obamacare has resulted in human suffering.

The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

Israel is the heart of all nations." It was the conscience and the raw exposed nerve; all emotion passed through it. But it was more than that; it was the heart that suffered whenever any part of the body was ill.

The Anti-Semiten. Why don't they ever learn? Why does God permit it?" Roth sneered. "God is a luxury I don't give myself.

It was better than floods of misery that a son of her flesh had killed the sons of other mothers. That burned in her heart like the pain which flared in the arthritis of her knees. Pain was a boring conversationalist who never stopped, just found new topics. Bess

Bessie could not keep from thinking, "His nightmare will be over, but mine will never be.