Quotes About Suffering

and though we living in a civilized country where Christianity is protected by law, are not called to suffer these things while we continue here, yet I question whether all are justified in staying here, while so many are perishing without means of grace in other lands.

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

Unhappy Land, whose Blessings tempt the Sword. Eclogue the Fourth. Agib and Secander; or the Fugitives

Man disavows, and Deity disowns me; Hell might afford my miseries a shelter; Therefore Hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all Bolted against me. Hard lot! encompassed with a thousand dangers, Weary, faint, trembling with a thousand terrors, I'm called, if vanquished, to receive a sentence Worse than Abiram's. Him the vindictive rod of angry Justice Sent quick and howling to the centre headlong; I, fed with judgement, in a fleshy tomb, am Buried above ground.

In a fleshy tomb I am buried above ground.

money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

To live one's myth is to think in its terms. To fulfill one's myth is to suffer through its source.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.

Poor man. Poor mankind.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

It was a place if not hell then certainly the room across the hall from it.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.

Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.

The philanthropists and humanitarians have their minds all full of the wretched and miserable whose case appeals to compassion, attacks the sympathies, takes possession of the imagination, and excites the emotions. They

The truest and deepest pathos in this world is not that of suffering but that of brave struggling.

When afflicted, love can allow thee to groan, but not to grumble.

Mercies should draw, afflictions drive.

As the bloody Jews and Roman soldiers exercised their cruelty on every part almost of Christ's body, crowning his head with thorns, goring his side with a spear, and fastening his hands and feet with nails; so the despairing sinner deals with the whole name of God.

Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "The rejoicing of hope." - William Gurnall

Gospel comfort may be known by the vessel it is poured into, which is a broken heart.