Quotes About Suffering

Pain does not differentiate between rich and poor or Christian and Buddhist. It brings the same feelings to everyone.

We are not living. We are swimming in water called time. When our bodies get tired, we drowned and die.

To live unhappily, is failing life.

For those who trust, life is a blessing. For those who don't trust, life is suffering.

Not knowing about the ultimate purpose of our lives causes tremendous amounts of suffering.

Suffering is never wasted. Most often those who suffer the most will learn the most.

In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.

When fear and suffering are disliked by me and others equally what is so special about me that I protect myself and not the other?

Often pain is not real but just a perception.

Nature suffers the most but never complains. Flowers never forget to bloom and beautify the world.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did

Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

I think most good poetry is about suffering; I think that's what underlies the love in these landays pieces - suffering and longing.

A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

A wounded dear leaps the highest