Quotes About Suffering

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Job said, "Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face."

"The two foes of human happiness are pain and boredom."

Kurt Vonnegut

There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you.

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet, and ourselves.

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now.

For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

God doesn't stop crisis from coming, as He didn't stop Christ from coming. Things have their reasons for happening, we need not to faint, but rather have faith that we are never alone.

Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made.

In a 50 mile radius around Chicago one can see the red aura of pain, agony, terror, anger from all the animals being butchered there.

If we deny our anger, our pain, our ambition, or our goodness, we will suffer.

This, I thought, is what is meant by "thy will be done" in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. It means you may be crucified.

To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we know that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

I knew he that he didn't have the strength to get free. His life was being driven by a kind of flywheel. He had submitted to it and accepted it. It was turning fast. To slow it down or stop it and come to a place that was moving with the motion only of time and loss and slow grief was more, that day, than he could imagine. I knew too that it was more than he could bear.