Quotes About Suffering

Every day, we wake up empty and scared." So start by accepting that it's okay to suffer or to feel depressed at times. And then learn to distinguish between the pain that is unavoidable and the suffering that we create for ourselves.

Why should people be so helplessly affected by agony they cannot remove?

He Harris felt the loyalty we all feel to unhappiness -- the sense that that is where we really belong.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art… what we are talking about—and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth—I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

We fight it down, and we live it down, or we bear it bravely well, But the best men die of a broken heart for the things they cannot tell.

There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.

A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one

Every man is his own hell.

Angor animi - the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.

You might expect that seeing so much pain and suffering might help you keep your own difficulties in perspective but, alas, it does not.

And yet it has been estimated that in the developed world, 75 per cent of our lifetime medical costs are incurred in the last six months of our lives. This is the price of hope, hope which, by the laws of probability, is so often unrealistic. And thus we often end up inflicting both great suffering on ourselves and unsustainable expense on society.

ANGOR ANIMI n. the sense of being in the act of dying, differing from the fear of death or the desire for death.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

Florida Highway, 1986. Lonely slum. I passed through on low wheels. It was hot outside. Shacks, gas stations that didn't work, dead corn in fields, children on the road, retarded and dulled by the heat. Two girls waved as I passed.

Don't touch me I'll feel too good I'll fall apart The only thing holding me together is my pain

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Your silent tents of green We deck with fragrant flowers; Yours has the suffering been, The memory shall be ours.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

The terrible suffering among the freed slaves during Reconstruction has been overshadowed, in popular literature and film, by the fall of the white planters, exemplified by the figure of Scarlett O'Hara.

It is impossible that all men have been doomed to suffer this awful horror!

They say: misfortunes, sufferings...well, if someone said to me right now, this minute: do you want to remain the way you were before captivity, or live through it all over again? For God's sake, captivity again and horsemeat! Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it's only here that the new and the good begins. As long as there's life, there's happiness. There's much, much still to come.

What a terrible thing war is, what a terrible thing!

Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hordes of men had come from the east to the west slaying their fellows.